Welcome to Maker Faire

Name: Maker Faire Bay Area
Start: 2025-09-26T10:00
End: 2025-09-28T17:00
Location: Mare Island

Maker Faire is the original, worldwide maker event that brings together creators, innovators, and DIY enthusiasts to showcase their projects, share ideas, and show us all what the future can be. Produced by the publisher of Make: magazine, since 2006 Maker Faire has been inspiring people of all ages to ask questions, find solutions, collaborate, and experiment. Come join us!

September 25-27, 2026

Celebrating the Maker in Everyone

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Maker Faire Bay Area! Join us at the Historic Mare Island Shipyard on September 25-27th to make 2026 the most fun and inspiring year of Maker Faire yet. Save 30% on tickets until April 1st!

I want to celebrate makers. I want to flush them out of their communities and bring them together at events like Maker Faire so they can meet each other and see that they aren't alone, that they can learn from each other and, more importantly, begin to do things that they might not think they can do on their own.

Dale Dougherty

FOUNDER OF MAKER FAIRE

Maker Faire Around The World

Maker Faire continues to grow the maker community, sharing the joys of making and connecting creative people of all ages across the world. In 2025, Maker Faires were produced by and for makers in 44 countries.

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Show & Tell

From the pages of Make: magazine and our annual Maker Faire yearbook learn more about makers, projects, workshops, and performances taking shape in garages, sheds, makerspaces, schools, and just about anywhere else you can think of.

News from Magazine

Behind (The Walking) Hand of a Sci-Fi Icon: Animatronics Designer...

In a niche corner of the internet where creators still surprise audiences with real animatronics rather than CGI, Jesse Velez reveals the process behind the most impressive sci-fi props.

The Chompsaw – A Powerful Tool for Kids’ Creation

Kausi and Max, Chompshop’s young co-founders, revealed how the Chompsaw was created. Their product addresses a key need in children’s creativity. Despite many DIY kids’ projects, safe power tools are still missing. The Chompsaw is a safe yet effective tool that lets kids fully build and enjoy their DIY projects. Chompshop’s vision, the company that […]

The Connect 4 Musical Instrument: A Creative Fusion of Music...

At last fall’s Maker Faire Bay Area, Ben showcased the ‘Connect 4 Musical Instrument’. It is a twist on the classic strategy game, but this one plays music as you play the game. Ben shares how this project combined elements of game design, music technology, and interactive art. Ben showed us how his idea evolved […]

Watch: The Founder’s Vision—Dale Dougherty on the DNA of...

Before Dale Dougherty’s keynote at Maker Faire Bay Area in September, the crowd was silent. As Dale stood at the podium and looked out on the packed audience, there was a collective “ohhhh” in the air, a deep breath of, “we are home.” Dale is not only the founder of this event and this magazine, […]

Maker Spotlight: Retro Roadshow

What do you do with a collection that keeps on growing? Turn it into a traveling retro technology roadshow, of course!

Plasma Cannons & Tesla Towers: Chasing Lightning

Want to study the raw power of lightning? According to Engineer Grey Leyh you build tools to control it, and that is just what he did. At Maker Faire Bay Area last fall, he walked through two incredible projects that turned extreme physics into reality. First, he resurrected a plasma cannon.Starting with an old, powerful […]

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