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.
Melbourne RaspberryPi is open to everyone with an interest in electronics, robotics, making and programming. Group projects include developing and recently launching a High Altitude Balloon, building line following robots and HomeAutomation.
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.
Vesti is an app with the main feature being that you can scan your body to try on clothes virtually. This will be a feature that will be directed to in-home users to try on clothes from online or overseas to promote hassle-free clothing fun.
TapeBlocks are an accessible, affordable, versatile and creative circuit making activity designed so anyone can explore circuits for themselves. TapeBlocks combine technology with creativity to encourage everyone to play and explore.
custom made jewellery and accessories
Every Hue of You is our first game! A visual novel where you play as Twyla, a young jeweller who discovers she has the ability to enchant her creations with the energy of her customers’ emotions.
We specialise in Star Wars props, we like to stay true to the originals and manufacture things like they did in the 70s. We will be showing off how the originals were made and how the manufacturing processes have evolved over the past 40 years.
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.
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.