Tag: MAKERFAIRE

Share Charlie Bucket is a bit of a star in the hacked crafts crowd, having debuted his Fluid Dress at the Maker Faire festival in California last year. Yet, showing the dress in its most-perfected form, Bucket's just-released video is time-lapsed and edited together to demonstrate how beautiful (and fluid) the Fluid Dress could actually be. Composed of over 600 feet of knitted tubing and a ...

Ben Heck is an all star in the field of DIY and modding. The man who has turned almost every game console under the sun into a portable system (be it handheld or laptop) now has his own show dedicated to making his fans' DIY dreams into reality. Mr. Heckendorn took time out of his hectic schedule of soldering and ripping things apart to chat with us at Maker Faire this weekend. Read on after the ...

The Switched team arose early last Saturday to trek out to the New York Hall of Science in Queens for the city's first-ever Maker Faire. As we chugged coffee, we watched the modders, hackers and DIY-based designers of the world strut their stuff. Feeling a bit like kids again (possibly due to being alongside budding mechanics and entire areas devoted to teaching kids how to solder and ...

Making her name as the de facto designer of fab, fantastic techno creations, Diana Eng's forward-thinking designs have ranged from jellyfish-like underwater sea creatures to candy raver. This weekend, we saw Eng's most recent fashion show at New York's Maker Faire -- which was packed due to her affinity for attracting the magnetic and physical. Inspired by underwater and fairy tales, her show had ...

AJ is a lime green, decal-bedecked 2011 Ford Fiesta. Like HAL from '2001,' he has his own man-made intelligence, and thus the gendered pronoun. He's been making his way around the country, sending messages to anyone who will listen. You see, AJ is a car that tweets. Ford engineers gave AJ (short for American Journey 2.0) the ability to connect to the Internet by outfitting him with a Dell ...

Maker Faire 2009 is the world's largest DIY festival, celebrating everything from food to arts and crafts to cutting-edge technology. Organized by the folks behind the fantastic Make magazine, this year's festival, held last weekend in San Mateo, California, featured over 600 different "Makers" and their inventions/creations. We stopped by San Mateo Event Center where it was taking place, and ...