Half-way between a science fair, a county fair, and a fair that is entirely different from anything else, Maker Faires gather tech enthusiasts, engineers, educators, amateurs and students of all ages, who come to share their creations and experiences.
Who is Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty invented the Maker Faire in 2006. One year before, the factory he had co-founded, O’Reilly Media, had launched Make magazine. This publication, inspired by the century-old Popular Mechanics, is the benchmark and main catalyst of a culture that is already worth millions of dollars worldwide and has Barack Obama among its followers: the makers.
In fact, the White House hosted the first Maker Faire in June last year. Neil Gershenfeld, the director of the Bits and Atoms Center at the MIT, was there. Gershenfeld showed a mobile Fab Lab to the U.S. president, the truck version of the Fabs Labs…
