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Give us your in-progress, your hacked-together, your duct-taped masses, your unfinished, your one-of-a-kind, your untitled projects.

Dublin Mini Maker Faire is joining forces with The Gathering and Dublin’s new Festival of Curiosity, and as such we’ve decided to extend the open call for projects to March 15th. So if you’ve only just head about DMMF, or if you missed the deadline, fear not– there is still time!  Apply here to be a part of Ireland’s biggest one-day festival of makers, crafters, and DIY scientists!

Talk about being on the map. Dublin Mini Maker Faire 2012 was visible FROM SPACE.

No joke – the epic day of making that was Dublin Mini Maker Faire was big, but even we didn’t know it would get picked up on Apple’s maps app.

Now we could take credit and say we launched a rocket with a camera attached and submitted the photos to Apple, or that we calculated on which day the satellites were flying overhead and scheduled the faire for that day.  Maybe it wasn’t even a satellite but rather a high-altitude plane doing photography to fill in the high-density parts of the map.  But either way, those white tents, those rightly colored seats– it’s unmistakable.

Can we promise that Dublin Mini Maker Faire on July 27th, 2013 will be immortalised on Apple’s maps again? Was it a coincidence? You’ll just have to join us to find out.  The call for makers is still open until March 1st.

Early warning all ye makers! The Dublin Mini Maker Faire call for makers will open on January 16th, 2013 (pending license approval from O’Reilly).  If you are a member of a hackerspace, men’s shed, university, club, laboratory, blacksmithery, or submersible evil lair and would like some flyers and posters to help you spread the word, get in touch at info@makerfairedublin.com.

Need some inspiration? Check out the best of the 2012 faire:

Dublin Mini Maker Faire blew away all our expectations - and we hope you felt the same.  In the end, we had over 5,500 attendees between 10am and 6pm.  There were spaceships, robots, sugru and arduinos, crochet, submarines, and much more.  For a tiny snapshot of the day, here’s a video that sums up the experience pretty well.

There are loads more great videos and photos from the day that we’ll share.  But all this wouldn’t have been possible without the many helping hands of so many makers, volunteers, organisers, and sponsors.  So thank you to everyone who pitched in and helped out.

And a huge thank you to all our volunteers, especially all the Michigan State MAET Programme participants! Congratulations on your graduation, guys!

Plus here are many more videos – if you have some to add, email a link to info@makerfairedublin.com.  Now on to 2013!!

In the lead up to Dublin Mini Maker Faire, let’s meet some of the great makers who will be at the faire:

We promised there’d be lasers, and Husband and wife team Fiona Snow and Michael Mohler balance a love for accuracy and precision with a creative “flair” to make some amazing laser-cut products.

Since 2011, SNOW have been lasering away, using a 40 watt Epilog Laser Cutter to create many of their products.

This cutting edge machine has a working area of 600 x 300 mm and can cut and score a very wide range of materials from paper, plastics, wood and much more.  Here are some examples of the setup and sample projects:

Download our sponsor pack to find out how you can support this great event.

Becoming a sponsor of Dublin Mini Maker Faire is a great way for your company or organization to get involved with this exciting and enriching community, all-ages event in its inaugural year.

We’re chuffed that some of the lovely makers from Brighton Mini Maker Faire will be joining us at Dublin Mini Maker Faire.  Check out their faire from last year:

We had dozens of fabulous projects, products, performances, and demos proposed!  We’ll be getting back to everybody by Mid-April.  In the mean time, if you have another brilliant idea, or want to get involved with Dublin’s Mini Maker Faire, just email info@makerfairedublin.com .

Thank you to everyone who submitted projects, performances, workshops and more in our open call for makers!  Due to a couple last-minute requests for some extra time, we’ll consider submissions that got in on time first, but we will be accepting submissions up until midnight Thursday March 22nd.  So if you only just heard about the call for makers, or missed the deadline, you have a little extra time to get your idea in!  Any questions? Just email info@makerfairedublin.com.