Are you interested in exhibiting as a Maker or becoming a Maker Faire Orlando Sponsor? Would you like to Volunteer at Maker Faire Orlando? Let us know!
Our Registry of Interest is now open!
This registry will be used as the Maker Faire Orlando Team plans for this event. We will notify you when the official calls for makers, sponsors and volunteers are opened.
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We are VERY excited to announce a new partnership to bring Orlando Mini Maker Faire to Orlando Science Center starting in 2013!
This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 5th, 2013 at Orlando Science Center and will feature many of the amazing Makers from our inaugural event, new Makers from within our community, AND Maker-focused exhibits from Orlando Science Center.
In the coming weeks, we will start accepting applications for Maker exhibits, workshops, talks, and performances.
For information on becoming an Orlando Mini Maker Faire sponsor, please email info@makerfaireorlando.com
Stay tuned!
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We are still hard at work to bring you an even better Orlando Mini Maker Faire in 2013.
The event will be held in the fall at an exciting new location – but we can’t announce it quite yet…thank you for your patience as we finalize all the agreements!
While you are waiting for the announcement, go back and check out some of these great videos from the 2012 event!
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Yes, there will be a Maker Faire in Orlando in 2013!
Your local organizers have been very busy behind the scenes and hope to announce a new date (Fall 2013) and venue VERY SOON. Stay tuned, and follow us on Facebook for up to the minute notifications!
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Orlando Mini Maker Faire Sponsor Gabotronics has a blog post showing off their booth, including a video of their Xprotolab demonstrations – check it out!
Here’s a quick sample…
Go read the full post… (I love the pic where you can’t see the Gabotronics booth because all the people are in front of it!)
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Meet Alicia – she’s one of the amazing volunteers that helped bring Maker Faire to Orlando.
Ali, or “NiftyBA” as you’ll see on her blog, took lots of “behind the scenes” photos which helped commemorate the day for the organizers & volunteers.
She has a great eye for design and color, which will be very obvious when you check out her photobucket for the event.
Ali and her husband Bill are members of FamiLAB, so you’ll also see lots of great shots of the FamiLAB booth & crew…
Huge thanks to Ali for taking & sharing all these great photos (there are 400+ in the photo bucket, go take a look!)
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Ron Thompson from Hackerspace Titusville and Jamie Cunningham from Backyard Workshop paired up at Orlando Mini Maker Faire to show off 3d printers, discuss other CNC tools, and give an aluminum casting demonstration.
Ron created this video from their pictures – make sure you check out the skull they cast from aluminum at the event!
If you click through to Youtube, you can also get the details about the music playing with the video, it is from Jamie’s band “Big Moon Rocket”…
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Wired GeekMom contributor Gina Clifford attended Orlando Mini Maker Faire and met Mitch Altman, – she labeled him an “Electronics Jedi” – check out her GeekMom post which also features a picture of her son in Mitch’s “Arduino for Total Newbies” workshop at Orlando Mini Maker Faire.
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Orlando Mini Maker Faire was the first “off-line outing” for Robots Are Awesome – but you wouldn’t have known it from their awesome booth full of awesome robots. Many robots were “adopted” at the event, and we hope you like yours as much as we like the ones we adopted 
Check out this blog post from Robots Are Awesome to see their photos from the event, and to learn more about the robots and their adventure that day…
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We met Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda from the Orlando Sentinel at the Central Florida Scout Show in April. He came out to FamiLAB while we were preparing for the event, and created a great video about FamiLAB…
Ricardo stopped by the fairgrounds on our event setup day, and brought lots of photo gear to Orlando Mini Maker Faire. Below are links to the Orlando Sentinel website where you can see the videos he created. Ricardo is a maker (just get him talking about his camera mods!) and it is great to see the event from the perspective of his lenses!
This first link is to a story and a video overview of the event, with interview footage from Ian Cole & Mitch Altman. (Click the image to be taken to the Orlando Sentinel website…)
This video is timelapse from the event, taken right inside the main hall entrance using a GoPro on a tripod. (Click the image to be taken to the Orlando Sentinel website…)
This video is an interview with Mitch Altman answering the question, “What is a Hacker?” (Click the image to be taken to the Orlando Sentinel website…)
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