Maker Faire Montréal

Building on the success of last year’s Robotic’s Hackathon, the event is back this year and is a great opportunity to get familiar with the emerging field of cloud-robotics. With a prize of $1500 for the winners, and prizes for second and third places, this year participants are asked to create a robot remote monitoring application allowing them to keep an eye on how their autonomous robots and smart devices are doing and how well they are accomplishing their tasks.

Last year, we restricted the hackathon participation to groups of people gathering in one place and participating to the event at the same time. This space-time restrictions seem outdated, especially for a cloud-based event. This is why, this year, we have no physical gathering restrictions or strict time synchronization requirements for participants. Also, we are not providing free robotics kits this year since now robots are more accessible and more people have them. Instead, we are giving away 3000$ in cash prices to the top three projects

More information can be found at the Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon.

Mini Maker Faire – Montréal 2012 from Fab Labs Québec on Vimeo.

The sweltering heat could do nothing against the ardor of Makers present at the inaugural Mini Maker Faire in Montreal and all weekend successive crowds of visitors were intrigued by all these inventions and creations. It was a golden opportunity for all those enthusiasts to inspire visitors and discuss their passion for robotics and interactivity.
Read more on Fab Labs Québec

Fantastic video by Richard Burman, taken at Montreal’s first Mini Maker Faire. He asked several Makers the question “Why is it important for you to MAKE?” Read more of what he had to say on his blog.

Bazmarc used his AR.Drone 2.0 to film the inside of the main tent at Montreal’s first Mini Maker Faire – Filmed Saturday, Aug 25th 2012 – Music by Incompetech.com Kevin Macleod

Ever come up with a great idea but not know how to start? Ever get discouraged on a project and can’t find any quick help online? Ever have a piece of tech break down and not want to pay 30$ for the proprietary repair manual that might not even make sense to you? Look no further! Fixit offers instruction manuals, helpful technicians, and discussion forums. Community-run and user-moderated, this site is an encyclopedia of useful help for tech based makers!

iFixit: The free repair manual

I’ve been mentioning the stencil workshop to people and I was surprised to find out that a lot of people don’t know what it is, or how easy it can be! Here’s a simple run-through. The method that will be shown Sunday at the Faire takes a bit longer to set up, but is also ideal for rolling out a massive amount of prints.

Check out the Instructables!

Old ideas always seem new when you ask a robot to do the work for you!

Egg Bots take the art of doodling and egg appreciation to a whole new level.

Thanks Evil Mad Science! 

At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites.

A technology and publishing enthusiast, Dale Dougherty founded MAKE magazine and created the world’s largest DIY festival, Maker Faire.

Wondering what to do with all those leftover take out spoons? Award winning designer Yaroslav Olenev came up with an easy to assemble lamp.

Like it? Make it!.