Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire

Live music is always a big part of every Maker Faire and ours is no different. Rick Kenny of Even Keel Event Productions has booked an awesome variety of sounds to keep you entertained.

Saturday, October 6, 2012 (event hours 10:00 am – 6:00 pm)

12:00 pm       Kenny Bergle’s Musical Therapy Lab and The Harmonic Dissidents                            with special guests Matt Wood, John Barrett, and Andy Rice                                          — Avant Garde multi-media experience

2:00 pm         Jeff Green                                                                                                                                                  — Experimental electronic music

4:00 pm        Moser Woods                                                                                                                                          — 3-piece all original progressive experimental music comprised of                                keys, bass, and drums

Sunday, October 7, 2012 (event hours 11:00 am – 6:00 pm)

12:00 pm       Hope Arthur                                                                                                                                             — Female singer/songwriter/seo services

1:45 pm          Afro-Disiacs of Fort Wayne                                                                                                              — Live world/jazz/funk/original music

3:30 pm          Dan Dickerson’s Harp Condition Electroaccustic                                                                  — Progressive jam band

Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire is just around the corner (3 weeks from tomorrow) but there is still time register as a Maker or sponsor.  If you like to tinker, build things, or tear things apart just to see how they work, join us for the Maker Faire where we will celebrate Makers who want to share what the’re working on.  If you want to show off the cool things you’re making, join us for free.  If you want to sell to the public, there’s a $100 fee to help offset event costs.  While there, you can learn to solder, weld, or blow glass; listen to live entertainment throughout the weekend; purchase awesome local food; watch “The Race“; learn at a variety of educational seminars, and just plain have fun!

Thanks to Home Depot and Lowes off Lima Rd. for supplying materials for building the obstacles for “The Race“.  We have space available so get your registrations in.  This is your chance to win fame and glory – just because it’s adults riding on modified kids cars shouldn’t make it any less thrilling of a win. Thanks also to Indiana Michigan Power and General Motors for helping to make this race a reality at the FWR Maker Faire!

All humans are interested in learning how things are made.  Whether it’s a widget, a painting, a video game, a robot, a new dish with vegetables from you garden, a building, or a modified car.  That’s why the TV show How Things are Made is so successful.  Makers are the folks who not only want to find out things are made, they are compelled to take things apart to find out why, or how to make something bigger, or better, or more efficient.

If you are one of these people, you could exhibit as one of our Makers too.  If you’re working on cool projects at home, have an idea for a product you want to share with others, etc., complete the Call for Makers on this website and meet other Makers just like you.

Either way, join us Oct. 6 & 7 for the 2nd Annual Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire – Powered by TekVenture and learn more about the process, tools, and materials creative and innovative people use for making things.  If you’re not a Maker, who knows, you may just want to start making things too.

Maker and committee member Ed DeWitt came up with the cool idea of making a FWR Maker Faire logo out of LEGOs.  We decided to have a little fun  and asked United Arts’ Taste of the Arts guests how many LEGOs it took to build the logo.  Well  Maureen Aren of Auburn, IN won the prize but instead of taking home the T-shirt, she opted for 2 free tickets to the FWR Maker Faire!  Congratulations Maureen.  By the way, we had a low guess of 80 and high guess of 20,000.  The correct number was 1,665.  Congratulations Maureen for your estimate of 1,653.

Visit us each day as students from Taylor University in Upland launch a weather balloon from the FWR Maker Faire.  Specific times are undetermined as the team must work with prevailing winds.  However, visitors can stop by the TekVenture tent after each launch to watch results from the instrument kit (cube-Sat.) as they’re sent live to computers set up in the Weather Station.  Thanks to Jeff Dailey and the Taylor U. team for providing this activity and  supporting our wonderful event.

Makers are registering left and right but for those who operate on your own time, we’ve decided to extend the Call for Makers.  Call your family and friends and let them know they can still register to exhibit at the FWR Maker Faire.  The registration deadline has been extended to September 15.  Complete your Call so we know to plan on you.

If you’ve been thinking about motorizing your skateboard for the FWR Maker Faire, check out this race – skateboard vs. a Corvette.