Melbourne's Massive Maker Movement
Nov 30, 2022
The Monash Maker Faire promises to be the largest Community Maker Faire ever held in Australia. Free to attend, with 10,000 people booked to attend th
Organised by Monash Tech School, The City of Monash, and Monash University, the supersized Monash Maker Faire was held at Monash University’s Clayton Campus on Sunday 4 December 2022.
The Maker Faire highlighted the physical makerspaces, labs, and studios found in the engaging Woodside Building for Technology and Design, collaborative Monash Makerspace, and entrepreneurial Monash Generator.
The Victorian community responded with over 300 artisans, developers, hackers, inventors, and tinkerers of all descriptions converging to share their passions with attendees of all ages.
We thank our sponsors, promoters and volunteers for supporting the diverse and active community of makers across the Monash Precinct and Greater Melbourne.
Display of model engines and work shop tools to create them and learning the history of the model being built.
Bricks 4 Kidz offer STEM Extra Curricular Programs with LEGO© and Robotics. We also provide entertainment programs using LEGO© bricks. There is no limit in what we can do with LEGO© bricks. All our models are custom designed. Come and check us out.
Monash Motorsport design, build, test and compete with formula style race cars internationally. The team is entirely student-run with the exhibit providing an opportunity to speak to our experienced engineers about the vehicle.
Trash is a melbourne made co-op survival craft video game. It lets players customise their character with crafted forms and abilities, letting them Jump, Glide, Shield or Smash your way around a wild open world, completing puzzling challenge zones.
Start an adventure where gravity is your worst enemy & save the world one egg at a time in this egg-rolling puzzle platformer! Featuring classical music, broken eggs, chicken-inappropriate tools, and mandatory funny hats.
3D META offer a growing range of 3D printers, filaments, resins as well as printer upgrades and spare parts. Please come and visit our stall and say hello.
This work investigates how AI generated music could be used to improve the accessibility of visual art for people with vision impairments. Various paintings have been converted into soundscapes that try to convey an appropriate aesthetic experience.
Students from Glenallen School would like to invite you to experience examples of how they access the STEM curriculum. Come and experience how the students drive robots using switches and eye-gaze, and how they travel the world using virtual reality.
Volunteers T-Shirts – Wilson Transformers
Volunteers Gift – City of Monash
School Makers Merchandise – Howmet Aerospace Foundation
The organising partners of the Monash Maker Faire acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and our event is held, the people of the Kulin Nations.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this country and their continued connection to land, sea, community and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.