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Maker Faire is an event created by Make magazine to "celebrate arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset".
Make Magazine assists independent event organizers in producing small-scale Maker Faire events in local communities. The Magazine calls independently-organized events "Mini Maker Faires." Community-driven Mini Maker Faires have sprouted up around the United States. Maker Faires are a groundswell of the people's response to the lack of solutions forthcoming from leadership of corporations and local government who seem to still be so enamored with global markets offered by Wall Street they can't see the opportunities right where they live.
Make Magazine is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) projects. It unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements and garages. Make celebrates your right to make, bend, tweak, hack any technology to your will.
A BIG MAKER FAIRE IS COMING UP IN A FEW WEEKS IN DETROIT
Maker Faire Detroit returns to The Henry Ford for its 6th year on July 25-26 with a new location for the outdoor midway, new projects on display and more than 70 new makers debuting in Detroit for the first time.
The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2014 celebrated its ninth annual show with some 1100 makers and 130,000 people in attendance. (Note: the San Mateo Maker Faire for 2015 is over. It was held on May 16 and 17.) World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in four years to 600+ makers and 80,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Orlando, Silver Spring, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Trondheim, Tokyo, Newcastle (UK), and Shenzhen are the home of larger-scale, “featured” Maker Faires and over 120 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world.
Maker Faires are a groundswell of the people's response to the lack of responsiveness and imagination from large, sluggish, bureaucratic multinational corporations who lost their ability to respond to current needs of people and the environment decades ago and are now dragging our economy down into the tarpit with them.
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Upcoming 2015 Maker Faires - If you don't have the time or money to see the one in Detroit, there are two coming up within the next two months within driving distance for Texans.
**Add the Maker Faire Calendar to your GCal or Outlook or iCal by URL: http://goo.gl/zEYuY5
- Maker Faire Singapore (Singapore): July 11 & 12, 2015 – 1st annual (plus two years as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Wichita Mini Maker Faire (KS): July 18, 2015 – 1st annual
- Kingsport Mini Maker Faire (TN): July 18, 2015 – 4th annual
- Maker Faire Detroit (MI): July 25 & 26, 2015 – 6th annual
- McAllen Mini Maker Faire (TX): August 1, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Anchorage Mini Maker Faire (AK): August 1, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Maker Faire Tokyo (Japan): August 1 & 2, 2015 – 3rd annual (plus multiple years as “Make: Meetings”)
- Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire (RI): August 8, 2015 – 7th annual
- Salem Mini Maker Faire (OR): August 8, 2014 – 2nd annual
- Chicago Southside Mini Maker Faire (IL): August 8, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire (IN): August 8 & 9, 2015 – 5th annual
- Chicago Southland Mini Maker Faire (IL): August 22, 2015 – 1st annual (plus one year as Mokena Mini Maker Faire)
- Bristol Mini Maker Faire (UK): August 22, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Maker Faire Trondheim (Norway): August 28 & 29, 2015 – 2nd annual (plus one year as a Mini Maker Faire)
- The Ozarks Mini Maker Faire (Springfield, MO): August 29, 2015 – 1st annual
- Dover Mini Maker Faire (NH): August 29, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Tulsa Mini Maker Faire (OK): August 29, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Eindhoven Mini Maker Faire (The Netherlands): August 29 & 30, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Albuquerque Mini Maker Faire (NM): August 29 & 30, 2015 – 4th annual
- Cincinnati Mini Maker Faire (OH): August 29 & 30, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Grand Rapids Mini Maker Faire (MI): September 5 & 6, 2015 – 2nd annual
- San Jose Mini Maker Faire (CA): September 6, 2015 – 1st annual
- Des Moines Mini Maker Faire (IA): September 7, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Midcoast Mini Maker Faire (ME): September 12, 2015 – 3rd annual
- León Mini Maker Faire (Spain): September 12, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Aggieville Mini Maker Faire (KS): September 12, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Nashville Mini Maker Faire (TN): September 12, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Calgary Mini Maker Faire (Canada): September 12 & 13, 2015 – 4th annual
- Portland Mini Maker Faire (OR): September 12 & 13, 2015 – 4th annual
- Maker Faire Orlando (FL): September 12 & 13, 2015 – 2nd annual (plus two years as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Maker Faire Lisbon (Portugal): September 18, 19 & 20, 2015 – 1st annual (plus one year as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Prince George Mini Maker Faire (BC, Canada): September 19, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Shreveport Mini Maker Faire (LA): September 19, 2015 – 1st annual
- Louisville Mini Maker Faire (KY): September 19, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Omaha Mini Maker Faire (NE): September 19, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Chattanooga Mini Maker Faire (TN): September 19, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Akron Mini Maker Faire (OH): September 19, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Barcelona Mini Maker Faire (Spain): September 19, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Seattle Mini Maker Faire (WA): September 19 & 20, 2015 – 4th annual
- Tartu Mini Maker Faire (Estonia): September 20, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Maker Faire Silver Spring (MD): September 20, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Baton Rouge Mini Maker Faire(LA): September 26, 2015 – 2nd annual
- WORLD MAKER FAIRE NEW YORK (NYC): September 26 & 27, 2015 – 6th ANNUAL
- Maker Faire Milwaukee (WI): September 26 & 27, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Champlain Mini Maker Faire (VT): September 26 & 27, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Scranton Mini Maker Faire (PA): October 3, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Wenatchee Mini Maker Faire (WA): October 3, 2015 – 1st annual
- Greater Hartford Mini Maker Faire (CT): October 3, 2015 – 1st annual
- Maker Faire Berlin (Germany): October 3 & 4, 2015 – 1st annual
- Maker Faire Atlanta (GA): October 3 & 4, 2015 – 2nd annual (plus three years as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Maker Faire San Diego (CA): October 3 & 4, 2015 – 1st annual (plus one year as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Bogotá Mini Maker Faire (Columbia, South America): October 3 & 4, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Colorado Springs Mini Maker Faire (CO): October 10, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Charlotte Mini Maker Faire (NC): October 10, 2015 – 1st annual
- Salt Lake City Mini Maker Faire (UT): October 10, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Maker Faire Pittsburgh (PA): October 10 & 11, 2015 – 1st annual (plus three years as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Maker Faire Seoul (Korea): October 10 & 11, 2015– 4th annual
- Aarhus Mini Maker Faire (Denmark): October 10 & 11, 2015 – 2nd annual
- NoCo Mini Maker Faire (Loveland, CO): October 10 & 11, 2015– 3rd annual
- Maker Faire Rome (Italy): October 16-18, 2015 – 3rd annual
- San Antonio Mini Maker Faire (TX): October 17, 2015 – 1st annual
- Denton Mini Maker Faire (TX): October 17, 2015– 1st annual
- Compostela Mini Maker Faire (Santiago de Compostela, Spain): October 17, 2015– 1st annual
- Espoo Mini Maker Faire (Finland): October 17-18, 2015– 1st annual
- East Bay Mini Maker Faire (Oakland, CA): October 18, 2015 – 6th annual
- Maker Faire Ottawa (Canada): November 7 & 8, 2015 – 1st annual (plus 5 years as a Mini Maker Faire)
- Miami Mini Maker Faire (FL): November 7, 2015 – 3rd annual
- Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire (NY): November 14, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Istanbul Mini Maker Faire (Turkey): November 14, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Rimini Beach Mini Maker Faire (Italy): November 14-15, 2015– 1st annual
- Rochester Mini Maker Faire (NY): November 21, 2015 – 2nd annual
- Charlottesville Mini Maker Faire (VA): December 5, 2015 – 3rd annual
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Note: Several maker spaces are proposed for the Walkable Main Street Village. It should also be noted that at least one of our public schools here in Garland, Watson Tech, already has a maker space for its students.
Explore a growing body of knowledge about an exciting ongoing project to create a plan for building a vibrant sustainable mixed-use neighborhood! The Walkable Main Street Village right near downtown Garland.
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VIEW THIS VIDEO ON A MEDICAL MCGIVER WHO CREATES MEDICAL TOOLS FROM TOYS.
DIY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIrqL-vVlZo