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Maker Faire Newcastle 2009

Here's some info about our upcoming Maker Faire Newcastle 2009-

The first UK Maker Faire will take place in Newcastle 14-15 March 2009 as part of Newcastle ScienceFest, a 10-day festival celebrating creativity and innovation.

In the last decade Newcastle has joined forces with neighbouring Gateshead and has transformed itself into one of Europe's most exciting places. Architectural icons such as the gigantic Angel of the North (whose 54m wingspan is longer than a jumbo jet!) best symbolises the region's unquenchable thirst for creativity and sense of fun.

Innovation has always been at the heart of the city. Newcastle's Mosley Street was the first in the world to be lit by electricity and famous inventors such as Charles Parsons, William Armstrong, George Stephenson, and Joseph Swan have all lived or worked in the city. Today, Newcastle continues to inspire inventors, artists, and scientists alike. Johnathon Ive, designer of the iPod, studied at one of the city's universities, and scientists at the Centre of Life were the first in the world to successfully clone a human embryo!

The city is proud to host the UK's first Maker Faire and looks forward to welcoming UK and international makers in March!

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MAKE Magazine Gift Subscriptions and Gift Certificates: It's not too late to spark a lifetime of making!

It's not too late to give the gift of making! MAKE magazine has gift subscriptions and gift certificates to the Maker Shed store available with downloadable cards you can make yourself!

MAKE magazine is the first magazine devoted entirely to do-it-yourself (DIY) technology projects. MAKE magazine unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.

Give the gift of making, a full year of MAKE. With each subscription you get the print version AND the Digital Edition. MAKE Digital Edition is a vivid replica of the print edition of MAKE, offering an experience very much like the print magazine, plus many additional benefits, such as online searching, embedded multimedia, and printing. MAKE Digital Edition can be viewed from any web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and requires NO DOWNLOADING of software and has no DRM! It gives you instant access to your entire MAKE collection!

Here's what folks are saying about MAKE:

"If you're the type who views the warnings not to pry open your computer as more a challenge than admonition, MAKE is for you."
- Rolling Stone

"MAKE magazine, one of the bibles of the do-it-yourself movement"
-Julia Moskin, The New York Times

"In here are more than articles bound together, more than the vision of its creators even: it's a possibility engine. A passel of new ways of thinking, and thus, new ways of looking at the world. This is, without a doubt, my favorite magazine ever, and my only beef with them is that I don't have enough free time to try everything I'd like to."
-Adam Savage, MythBusters

"...the crew at Make magazine/Maker Faire/Makezine are leading the way with a great energy and a spirit of adventure. They've made open source/DIY hardware seem as cool and subversive as the punk movement of the early 80s. Soldering irons are the new electric guitars!"
- Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine

"This is a magazine for people who, in real life, are like Matthew Broderick from War Games. Everything children would like to be able to do with technology, you do."
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

"There's a magazine I like, MAKE magazine ... it's all about how to build little robots out of Altoid tins, and how to make sea monkeys into giant blood-sucking rats. It's pretty cool and it's a lot of fun"
- Jimmy Kimmel, The Jimmy Kimmel Show

"If I read one more article or hear one more speech about how this country is losing its edge because not enough people are getting into science and technology, I'll become officially depressed. In that light, it's especially satisfiying to know that, if the pages of MAKE are any indication, the spirit of experimentation and geekiness-for-its-own-sake are thriving in the basements and backyards of America."
-David Pogue, The New York Times

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