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Maker Faire Detroit is in the works for summer 2010. Here's a clip showcasing why its Michigan home, the Henry Ford, is a perfect fit for the spirit of innovation.

Along the lines of Makers and Hackers, Folksy, Craft Mafia, Howduino, Oomlout and other get-together events for technical doers, the MYLiIT festival presents Wales’ first Maker Faire - an event for DIY enthusiasts with a taste for the technical. Individuals and collectives come together to demonstrate […]

A quick interview conducted by Jamie Thomas with Emeka Okafor of TED Africa and Maker Faire Africa at Chapter Arts, Cardiff over May You Live in Interesting Times

Kipp Bradford talks about the planning behind Providence's DIY Maker Faire Rhode Island.

A film of our HANUMAN the Monkey God at the UK's first Maker Faire. More details at www.pif-paf.co.uk Musician is Will Lenton Performotechs are Pete Gunson and Eleanor Hooper

THIS INSTRUMENT WAS MADE BY CIRCUIT BENDING AN "EASY" BUTTON FROM STAPLES. THE SWITCH IN THE UPPER RIGHT ACTIVATES THE BEND AND THE POTENTIOMETER TWEAKS […]

An FTIR multi-touch table we built for Maker Faire 2008.

Hayford Bempong and David Celestin are electricians at Accra Polytechnic, who I wrote about last as they had fabricated an FM radio station from scratch and used it at Maker Faire Africa. Hayford and David seemed like just the type to take a look at the bag and really determine its use. Being college-level […]

Suprio Das is part of the water-cleansing team with Killian Deku, Laura Stupin and Bernard Kiwia. Besides the ball-valve doser, they've also created a siphon mechanism chlorine filter. It, like all of the IDDS work, uses locally available materials. This particular project attaches to a hand pump […]

With one 5 liter bag of chlorine, and a device that costs $3 to build, you can clean 100,000 liters of water. Killian Deku, a Ghanaian working in the IDDS program, has created a ball valve chlorine doser with the help of his team mates from India, the US and Tanzania. Their only real costs were the […]

We've got a lot of plastic trash all over Africa, especially in the cities. A team from IDDS (Amit Gandhi from the US, and Mark Driordan from the UK) decided to create a way to add value to waste plastic by using a low-cost process to transform it into something useful: plastic sheets. From these sheets […]

Bernard Kiwia is from Arusha, Tanzania. He's here at Maker Faire Africa as part of the IDDS group that has been building innovative devices for the last couple weeks in Kumasi, Ghana. Today he's showing his device that he created from an old bicycle and some welded rods. It's powered by someone sitting in a chair.