Ireland's biggest maker festival is back - and free tickets
Dublin Maker takes the form of a “show and tell” experience where inventors/makers sourced through an open call, will have an opportunity to showcase their creations in a carnival atmosphere. It is a family friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the maker movement.
We are Ghostbusters Ireland. We have recreated the bookshop Ray's Occult Books from the Ghostbusters movie franchise. We built the set, many of the props, as well as replica props from the movie as part of our cosplays.
We are running a repair café – a community gathering place where people can bring their broken items, such as appliances, clothing, bicycles, or electronics, to be repaired by skilled volunteers for free. The idea behind repair cafes is to promote sustainability and reduce waste by encouraging people to repair and reuse their belongings instead of throwing them away.
Maker Juliane Gorman will demonstrate how locally foraged seaweed, sunlight, silk fabric, and Irish wool can be transformed through craft into objects of quiet beauty. Using cyanotype printing and Nunofelting, she combines two overlooked natural materials using processes that are both old and experimental. Discover how traditional craft, natural processes, and material innovation can merge into sustainable and inspiring creations – usually hats!
My exhibit will include a costume previously used in the Brigits Parade 2024 and 2025. A section of a future costume for the Brigits Parade on the table with me embroidering on it. I will provide samples for visitors to work on and give them instruction. The exhibited costume(s) will be hanging on stands I will provide and are embroidered with imagery based on feminine symbols. One is called Vulva Costume and has a large vulva embroidered in relief on its back. The other is called Hybrid Symbol and has an embroidered and beaded symbol on its back combining, the Labyrinth, the Labrys, the Spiral and the Symbol of Venus. All this embroidery is entirely made by hand and visitors will be able to watch me as I continue to embroider at the table in front of them.
Digital Mirror makes art and science come together to learn how humans and computers recognise faces. It was created by an artist, Cian McLoughlin, and maths Lecturer and Neuroscientist John Butler. You will get to draw faces showing different expressions, like happy or surprised. This helps you think about what makes expressions similar and different, and how artists, like Cian, begin to understand a face when creating a portrait. Then you will see how a computer would see these expression. Using machine learning the computer finds patterns in pictures of faces. What is amazing is that this is similar to how our brains learn to recognise people. If you want you can get your own “eigenface” a unique, computer-generated portrait to take home as a personal artwork. Come along do some sketching, make some faces, learn some maths and see yourself in a whole new way!
I worked in the Lambert Puppet Theatre as a puppet maker and designer. I work i film, stage and in schools teaching puppet making, including shadow puppetry, rod and marionette. I also have experience creating lanterns, creating puppet that glow in the dark, using thermoplastics. I work as a workshop fasciliator and also teach painting on glass and have taught children this.
Radio waves surround us and penetrate us, they are the true “Force” that binds us together! At “Radio Space” we’ll show you how you can have fun with the vast, invisible, radio spectrum that connects our modern world at the speed of light. Whether it’s Smart Phones or Satellites… it’s all Radio! We amateur radio hobbyists will show you how you can hear, decode and even see all types of strange signals using software-defined radio… even signals from space! With our special Radio “Force Powers” we’ll also demonstrate live two-way communications with other radio stations all around the world using voice, digital, and even Morse code! Amateur Radio is a fun, social, hobby where you can build your STEM skills and connect with like-minded all over the world… and beyond! Tune into us at Dublin Maker 2026 with South Dublin Radio Club.
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A community-run annual event that inspires visitors to engage with Makers about their interesting projects. Think technology, science, engineering, crafts and robotics.
Ireland's biggest maker festival is back - and free tickets
Dublin Maker is returning this summer and we are delighted
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There is dedicate bike parking at the racecourse.
Leopardstown Racecourse, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, D18 C9V6
