O'Reilly's Strata + Hadoop World New York kicks off Monday, and while the conference is sold out, there are several events that are part of New York City Data Week that are open to the public, including a data-focused Mini Maker Faire and an experiment with Arduinos, sensors, and XBees (courtesy of Digi) and cloud storage (courtesy of Amazon Web Services). Come and check out cool projects, or join the fun and play with data and sensors.
Makers are pulling together interesting and new projects all over the place, all the time. That's why Mini Maker Faires are such a great platform: every community has people hacking, building and creating, and cool projects are everywhere. See projects from Altanta and Fort Wayne (both last weekend), and a list of upcoming fairs.
I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but here at MAKE HQ in Sebastopol, Calif. we’re enjoying a great run of Indian Summer weather, deep blue skies, temps in the low 80s and a tinge of fall crispness when you step into the shade. A perfect [...]
After experiencing Maker Faire New York two weeks ago, I was eager to check out a scaled-down fair at Sunday's East Bay Mini Maker Faire. Even though it was smaller in size it had the same exuberant energy as New York.
It’s called a mini Maker Faire but there’s nothing small about it. The sun is out and so are lots of enthusiastic makers and fans thereof. Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson’s DIY Drone talk/demo attracted a huge crowd. Lots more to come so come on down.
