Not sure what making is all about? Here are some events happening over the coming weeks where you can try your hand at creating something fun and get an introduction to the bustling maker community in and around Toronto. Toronto…
Continue Reading →Waterloo Mini Maker Faire was a huge success! Several thousand people came through and saw ~40 makers, many with hands-on activities and lots of awesomeness. I took 93 photos, here's some of the most interesting stuff I saw: [caption id=""…
Continue Reading →Two of us from the Maker Faire Toronto team will be heading to Waterloo Mini Maker Faire this weekend, and we are super excited! And it looks like this is the first time that a Maker Faire is happening in…
Continue Reading →In anticipation of the Toronto Mini Maker Faire this fall, why not hit up a few events to learn a thing or two, so you can get started on a project worthy of a public show and tell. It’s no…
Continue Reading →(c) warmnfuzzy You were awesome. Our sponsors were awesome. Our launch party was awesome. We all had an amazing time and are totally humbled by your support. We generated a lot of love and magic that night! And we want…
Continue Reading →As we organize the Toronto Mini Maker Faire, we will come to rely on a number of sponsors, volunteers, advisors and folks from all around Toronto to help us make the faire the most awesome event it can be. One…
Continue Reading →Get your maker flaire on for Maker Faire launch party! Steampunk, mask-making, 3D printing and makers take over Mozilla HQ on May 7 at 7 p.m for the Maker Faire launch party. Please use #MMFTO if you plan to tweet/Instagram, and get ready to…
Continue Reading →April's been a busy and exciting month for us.... between Yuri's Night Toronto, the NASA Space Apps Challenge and FITC Toronto. We've included a few pics and links to the events below, with a review of FITC Toronto to follow.…
Continue Reading →Toronto Mini Maker Faire 2013 is launched! Well, almost... Obviously you can't have a launch without a party. Now that we're off the ground, we would be thrilled if you could come and celebrate our official launch: Toronto Mini Make…
Continue Reading →We hope to see you at some of these. We'll be spreading the word about Maker Faire Toronto, and our just-announced launch party—would love if you could help us do the same! 1. Augmented Reality Pub Night (April 9) 2.…
Continue Reading →The second Internet of Things Day is on April 9, but here in Toronto we're celebrating it one day early with a meetup at Hotel Ocho (195 Spadina Ave) @7pm. We'll be there talking about Maker Faire, and we'd love…
Continue Reading →This afternoon @3PM ET the White House will be talking about promoting the maker movement with makers Dale Dougherty (MAKE), Tara Tiger Brown (Los Angeles Makerspace) Super Awesome Sylvia (Super Awesome Maker Show), Saul Griffith (Otherlab) and Venkatesh Prasad (Ford).…
Continue Reading →Everyone meet Erin Lewis. Erin is an emerging Canadian artist working in the field of New Media and Wearable Technology. She works in OCAD's Social Body Lab, alongside Kate Hartmann and co-organizes a wearable computing meetup in Toronto. We are delighted…
Continue Reading →For the past month or so we've been meeting once a week or more to start shaping up our plan of attack to create an epic Maker Faire Toronto for 2013. This has involved legal research (much thanks to Chris),…
Continue Reading →Crazy, unstructured, free-from-criticism, all-awesome brainstorming and what a mighty fine collection of contributors. Thank you all kindly. [gallery columns="2" type="rectangular" ids="93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121"]
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