Maker Faire is NYCs version of CES meets Burning Man. Once a year in September it invades corona Queens for an entire weekend.
The Maker movement like the hacker movement is expanding. They are similar but the those in the maker movement play well with people and things and not just interface with computers as many software hackers do best.
Maker Faire is always too much but that is just the way it is. Perhaps one day we can clone ourselves and see it all. This is our best attempt to try and recap all which was going on. Best bet is for you to go yourself, Next year’s NYC Maker Fairs is XXXXX, check the Maker Faire websites as there are XXX Maker Faires worldwide.
The Maker Faire spirit continues dailty in NYC at places like eyebeam, dorkbot and numerous meetups.
Mark DeVinck from Lehigh Engineering School presented a short but important talk about creativity. How we are breeding creativity out of learning by how we speak to children. He maintains creativity cannot be taught but we can bring creativity back in our lives. EXAMPLE
We saw our friend Ben Heck from the Ben Heck show. Is he creative or what, creating his own job by building stuff and its at www.benheck.com Give it a watch.
My dream is that Maker Faires will bring back shop, chemistry, creativity and all those things which are missing from todays schools. Today students learn facts about old dead white men, the world is so much bigger, there is gym, there will always be gym, but the creativity the art, the design, the shop, all those things which help creativity are gone, Maker Faire brings them back. Perhaps Maker Faire can permutate the school systems offering students a more creative and better education. Students need teamwork from the brain not from upper and lower body strength as thats the future.
Making the Case for Making in Schools WATCH ON-DEMAND
Why can’t school be more like a Maker Faire? The answer is: it can. Learn how to advocate for making in your school from the authors of “Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.”
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Sylvia Martinez Co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom; president of the non-profit Generation YES; maker; mom; electrical engineer |
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Gary Stager, Constructing Modern Knowledge Veteran teacher-educator and speaker who has taught making in the classroom for more than 30 years. |
Children Are Teaching Adults to Make Again WATCH ON-DEMAND
Making is becoming a mainstream practice and maker spaces are now populating institutions like schools and libraries. As a result, kids are taking a break from their screens to get their hands dirty and create – something adults often neglect.
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Ayah Bdeir Founder and CEO, littleBits |
Bigshot: The Digital Camera for Education WATCH ON-DEMAND
Hear the story of Bigshot, a DIY digital camera kit, that was developed at Columbia University and is now a commercial product. Inventor Shree Nayar will review the motivation behind the camera, the design process and the online educational experience.
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Shree K. Nayar Founder, Kimera, LLC |
Making Space: NASA’s Call to Action for Makers WATCH ON-DEMAND
NASA’s grand challenge: find all asteroid threats to human population and know what to do about them. Unlike traditional missions, this grand challenge represents a new way of doing business for NASA and a call to action for Makers.
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Mason Peck Chief Technologist, NASA |
Solving World Challenges Through Making – The Hard Truths WATCH ON-DEMAND
Artist/designer/educator Benedetta Piantella will share an introduction to some of her past and current projects in Africa, as well as the lessons learned and hurdles met in building projects focused on solving humanitarian challenges worldwide.
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Benedetta Piantella Developer, Professor, Consultant T4D Lab, ITP-NYU |
The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner WATCH ON-DEMAND
World Maker Faire is the US debut of the MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner. Whether you’re an expert in 3D modeling or just getting started, CEO Bre Pettis will show how the MakerBot Digitizer helps you create clean, 3D-printable designs much faster than you could by hand.
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Bre Pettis Founder & CEO, MakerBot |
John Maeda: The Art of Critical Making WATCH ON-DEMAND
We are all hungry for authenticity in the expressions we encounter. Many of us hope to change the world-or another person’s perspective-with the things we make. This talk explores how RISD’s critical making helps bring us closer.
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John Maeda President, Rhode Island School of Design |
The Future is What We Choose to Make WATCH ON-DEMAND
People often ask about the future. What will it look like? Former DARPA Director, now SVP at Motorola Mobility, a Google company, Regina Dugan believes that we can’t predict the future… but we can choose to build it.
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Regina Dugan Senior Vice President, Motorola Mobility LLC |
The State of Arduino WATCH ON-DEMAND
Learn about the latest developments in Arduino open-source microcontroller from Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino Project.
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Massimo Banzi Co-founder of the Arduino project |
Hacking the Un-Hackable: Making the World Interactive WATCH ON-DEMAND
Living plants that control music, using human bodies to transmit sound, touch screens on water and 3D printed interactive eyes, virtual objects that you can feel with you hands in free air and many more things we invent at Disney Research.
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Ivan Poupyrev Principle Research Scientist, Disney Research Pittsburgh |
The New York World’s Fairs: 75 Years of Making Tomorrow WATCH ON-DEMAND
The NY World’s Fairs of 1939/1964 defined the future for 75 years. We’ll look back (with rare footage) and look forward to recognizing this anniversary as a celebration of maker cities, our maker future and a more sustainable world of tomorrow.
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Peter Hirshberg Chairman, re:imagine Group Pittsburgh |
Raspberry Pi: Shiny New Toys! WATCH ON-DEMAND
Eben will share some of the neat stuff they’ve seen people do with the Pi over the last six months, show a demo of their new hardware-accelerated desktop environment, and talk about what we’ve got coming up next – including their night-vision camera module, Pinoir.
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Eben Upton Founder, Raspberry Pi Foundation |
Low-Cost Neural Monitoring for Makers WATCH ON-DEMAND
Bill Casebeer, a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, will discuss and demonstrate low-cost neural monitoring technologies that will allow makers and citizen-scientists to engage in serious neuroscience research.
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William Casebeer Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) |
Making & Inspiring Science (Things Will Go Boom) WATCH ON-DEMAND
Jimmy Kimmel Live’s resident science teacher, “Science Bob” Pflugfelder is on a mission to help make science come alive! His presentation would feature one or more of his experiments, gadgets and contraptions, and a Q&A with the audience.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder Resident Science Teacher, Jimmy Kimmel Live |
New understanding of the brain is launching us into the realm of sci-fi possibilities. We will talk about the brain’s wiring and ways in which it can be changed, either naturally through learning or artificially through cybernetic interfaces.
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Lee von Kraus, PhD Halo Neuroscience |
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Amol Sarva, PhD Halo Neuroscience |
David Pogue: Return of the Non-Scientist WATCH ON-DEMAND
One year in the making. Six countries. 50 scientists. “Making Stuff 2,” David Pogue’s new NOVA series, debuts on Oct 15. NY Times columnist/NOVA host David Pogue offers a sneak preview–and some hilarious anecdotes, bloopers, and unreleased clips.
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David Pogue NY Times columnist/NOVA host |
The Maker Movement Manifesto WATCH ON-DEMAND
TechShop CEO Mark Hatch will read from his new book, “The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers.” Discussion to follow.
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Mark Hatch CEO, TechShop |
When Makers Apply For College WATCH ON-DEMAND
Learn how to talk about your Maker projects in the college admissions process from Engineer, Maker, and Assistant Director of Admissions at MIT Dr. Dawn Wendell.
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Dr. Dawn Wendell MIT |
Experiment Your Way to a Better Life WATCH ON-DEMAND
Crafting and making isn’t just for objects. You can also make/craft/invent a better personality, a stronger sense of ethics and new habits. I’ll talk about how my various experiments (Biblical Living, Extreme Health) changed me.
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A.J. Jacobs Author and experimenter |
The New Literacies WATCH ON-DEMAND
For years, paper and ink were only cheap and easy technologies that everyday people had to record our ideas, muse over them, and show them to others. But now we have a flurry of new modes to capture and share ideas: Video, photography, data, and 3D design and printing. What new types of expression and creativity are possible as we develop these “new literacies”? How do they change the way we think — and what we think about?
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Clive Thompson Contributing Editor, WIRED |
Zero to Maker: Getting to Speed with the Maker Movement WATCH ON-DEMAND
David Lang explains how he became a maker after losing his job, and how the experience helped him start OpenROV, a community and product line focused on undersea exploration. His book, Zero to Maker, is a guide for others who want to get involved.
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David Lang Co-Founder, OpenROV |
Break: 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT
Six Amazing Things about Making WATCH ON-DEMAND
Mitch Resnick, co-inventor of Scratch, and David Gauntlett, author of ‘Making is Connecting’, each discuss three objects which show the power of making. They show that making is learning, fosters happiness, and is true social participation.
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David Gauntlett Professor, School of Media, Art and Design University of Westminster, London, UK |
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Mitch Resnick LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab |
MakerNurse: The Stealth Ingenuity of Inventive Nurses WATCH ON-DEMAND
How are DIY Medical Technologies accelerating the stealth ingenuity of nurses? Lori Melichar of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Jose Gomez-Marquez of Little Devices at MIT will discuss the impact of inventive fabrication in health by nurses.
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Jose Gomez-Marquez Director of the Little Devices lab, MIT |
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Lori Melichar Senior Economist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
The Industrial Age is Over: Welcome to the Maker Age WATCH ON-DEMAND
What comes after the Industrial Age? Not the digital age, but the Maker Age. The author of Present Shock shows us how to embrace the real-time landscape ahead.
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Douglas Rushkoff Author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now |
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Making with Google Glass WATCH ON-DEMAND
How can Google’s wearable computer be used as a tool for makers and what can you make with it?
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Matt Richardson Contributing Editor, MAKE magazine |
Age of Context: The Future of Consumer Electronics WATCH ON-DEMAND
Robert Scoble believes we are entering a new era: the age of context. It’s a freaky, contextual world he envisions in his keynote talk at NEXT Berlin 2013. Don’t be fooled by the hype: It’s way more than just Google Glasses.
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Robert Scoble Startup Liaison Officer, Rackspace |
The Rise of the Design Lab WATCH ON-DEMAND
Carla Diana discusses the triumphs and challenges of building the Smart Interaction Lab at Smart Design. The lab promotes future-specting, open-ended exploration, builds community, and gives the outside world a glimpse of what makes the company tick.
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Carla Diana Smart Fellow, Smart Design
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