Toronto Mini Maker Faire is the ultimate celebration of making, crafting, DIY-ing, tinkering, hacking and sharing. It’s a weekend where makers of all kinds will show off their projects and hold how-to workshops, with hands-on activities for all ages. Exhibits on display will include robots, laser cutting, letterpress printing, a 3D print gallery and kinetic sculptures.
Come with the whole family (it’s the perfect Mother’s Day activity!!) and learn how to solder, convert a text message to origami with CFC Media Lab or make an LED-lit hat.
We’ll have about 70 different booths with awesome, interactive projects on display!
What else can you do?
- Efston Science will be there and will set up a learn how to solder booth – it’s never too late to learn!
- The Ontario Science Centre will be putting on all kinds of workshops where families and groups of friends can work together to build their way out of a problem.
- Globacore will be there with interactive touch-screen technology
- Aesthetec Studio will be showing off awesome display prototypes for the Calgary Science Museum
- If you’re into 3-D printing (or want to find out what it is!) there will be plenty of opportunities at a variety of booths.
- Check out a variety of Snowflake cameras.
- Hackerspaces will be showing of their latest projects – robots galore!
- Learn how to spin wool, if you’re so inclined!
- Take part in a no-sew sewing workshop – making either a book bag or a scarf with t-shirts and without a needle and thread
- Check out some man-made beehives!
- Nanotopia’s amazing and creative Tosca will be on hand to run workshops.
Admission: Day passes $10 adult/$5 kids under 12; Weekend passes $15 adult/$7.50 kids under 12; free for kids 2 and under.
Tickets available at Eventbrite, or at the event.
**PLEASE NOTE: The event will be Cash Only.**
To contact us, please email info@makerfairetoronto.ca
The Mini Maker Faire Toronto Team
The Treehouse Group is a collective of Toronto-area thinkers who promote the exchange of ideas by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds. We facilitate and host social events, and run a lecture series, Treehouse Talks, which takes place on the first Friday of every month at the MaRS Discovery District. The group shares the view that multi-disciplinary collaboration is central to addressing the issues that face society – both locally and globally.
Site 3 coLaboratory is a member-run maker space for art and technology collaboration in downtown Toronto. The goal for the space is to provide an environment that facilitates and promotes a four-step cycle: create – display – teach – inspire.
- Create: A workspace which provides members with access to tools and equipment for working on projects. This includes: an electronics lab with soldering equipment, CNC machinery such as a laser cutter and 3D printer, industrial sewing machines, lathes, and welding equipment.
- Display: A gallery space for hosting regular events, where members can display and promote projects.
- Teach: A classroom space for hosting regular events, where members and guests can share their skills and learn from each other.
- Inspire: Site 3 exists to develop a community of people interested in making awesome things and promoting the entire cycle.
EfstonScience is Canada’s largest retailer of science and astronomy products. Our Science SuperStore in Toronto is packed with thousands of innovative, hard-to-find products to inspire the scientist in everyone.
Associated Events/Organizations
Mini Maker Faire Toronto is timed to coincide with Science Rendezvous (SR), a one-day national science festival.
The SR initiative is a public platform to promote science awareness. It works to inform and engage, and to transform the general public from passive supporters of science and technology to active and passionate champions who have developed an understanding of the important role science plays in our rapidly changing world. It is designed to bring science and its practitioners face-to-face with the public, and through those interactions strives to encourage the understanding that science affects people’s daily lives, and that it is a worthy educational and career path for our youth.
Our good friends at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire have been invaluable in helping us get going, and we really can’t thank them enough.
Maker Faire
Maker Faire “is the World’s Largest DIY Festival – a two-day, family-friendly event to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology.”
Make Magazine/O’Reilly Media
MAKE Magazine / O’Reilly Media
Published as a quarterly since February 2005, MAKE is a hybrid magazine/book (known as a mook in Japan). MAKE comes from O’Reilly, the Publisher of Record for geeks and tech enthusiasts everywhere. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.