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.
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.
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.
DIY Raspberry Pi as an IOT client/server security/access/logging platform employing RFID tags/ID.
A bicycle driven christmas sleigh light show. This project was built to light up the community for the festive season while bringing attention to bicyclist safety and sustainable transport. Come along, have a chat, and bring home a small gift!
Unleash the artist within you AND connect with nature by creating your own Custom Cacti! 🌵 Paint your own pot and plant your chosen succulent/cacti to take home a own one-of-a-kind pot plant! 🎨🖌️
Come and visit us at the Yarra Ranges Tech School stand to discover how we engage and inspire kids by getting hands on with our desktop laser cutters, LittleBits electronics, digital embroiderer and awesome Robomaster robots.
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.
A 3D Printer like no other! This home built printer goes round and round - not back and forth. Confused? Come and see for yourself, find out how it works and chat all things 3D printing and scanning.
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.