Global Village Construction Set

"The Global Village Construction Set is like a life-size Lego set in which motors, parts, and power units can interchange." 

Maker Faire 2011

"At Maker Faire, there are no winners or losers—anything that's cool is fair game." 

~Michelle Hlubinka

Congratulations to all who exhibited at the Maker Faire. Young Makers groups came from all around the Bay Area and Central Valley, as seen on the map below.

Here are just a few of the projects from the Young Makers table:

Casey Duckering's Follow Me Car

The Soccer Trio's Lighting-Up Soccer Ball

Nathaniel Cooney's The Beast

Fire Jam

Read more about Fire Jam here.

Destination Investigation's ANFO flying machine

the flying machine in action

Plastic Chandelier by Lynette Johnson, Claudia Raya & Flor Zepeda

marysville makers' Airsoft ATV 

Nick Martin's working Model Police Vehicle

Sebastian and Leo talk about their xBox 360 mod

Sam DeRose shows his finished Metroid costume

Carver Simmons's Midi Light/Percussion Controller

going for a ride in John, Griffen, Koii, Zach, Braiden & Perry's cart

Please be sure and look at the full list of Young Makers projects (with descriptions) here.

And don't miss Michelle Hlubinka's article on Young Makers as an educational model, quoted at the top of this post, here.