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The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture [1] that intersects with hardware-oriented parts of hacker culture and revels in the creation of new devices as well as tinkering with existing ones. The maker culture in general supports open-source hardware.
A maker space with potential bricolage material. In the arts, bricolage (French for "DIY" or "do-it-yourself projects"; French pronunciation: [bʁikɔlaʒ]) is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work constructed using mixed media.
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Maker Faire 2008 was held on May 3–4, 2008, at the San Mateo County Event Center. Highlights of the Faire included a human-sized Mouse Trap board game, kinetic squid sculpture, 55' wingspan kinetic steel butterfly, bicycle-powered music stage, a solar-powered chariot pulled by an Arnold Schwarzenegger robot, [13] and over 500 other booths from different makers.
The term 'DIY culture' refers to people doing things for themselves and also a wide range of elements in non-mainstream society, such as grassroots political and social activism, independent music, art, and film.
A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the larger culture to which it belongs. The main articles for this category are List of subcultures and Subculture .
I propose to merge DIY Ethic into Maker Culture. I think that the content in the DIY Ethic article can easily be explained in the context of Maker Culture, and the DIY Ethic article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Maker Culture will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned.