Maker Faire

Meet CREATE – The UNSW Club for Making Things – Sydney Maker Faire 2014

Meet the team from CREATE – The UNSW Club for Making Things. These guys are the most entrepreneurial group of students I have met in my years of working with or attending Universities. As a group they are only about 18 months old but are growing rapidly. Typically University students learn

MetalTree’s HUGE 3D Printer demos at Sydney Maker Faire

Meet the Metaltree 3D Printer maker Jason Crowe. At 1.2m high this is the biggest 3D printer I have seen

Sydney Maker Faire – Meet Alex McClung & the Alexbot from Robots & Dinosaurs Hackerspace

This is what I love about Maker Faire, meet Alex McClung, creator of the autonomous Alexbot. A year 11 student Alex

OpenROV at Sydney Maker Faire 2014

The guys from OpenROV had their underwater explorer on display along with some videos of how it operates. The project is based in Silicon Valley and a year ago ran a Kickstarter campaign which was oversubscribed with 484 backers and $111,000 of a $20,000 goal raised. You can order parts

Weaver Robots a Big Hit at Sydney Maker Faire

Full disclosure: I have had the pleasure of working with the maker Fernando Vega for a year, after seeing the first