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chess pieces. Wander around a Maker Faire, and you see the ingenuity of what
humans are capable of, given time and resources. One exhibit that remains
stuck in my mind was The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir that I saw at a Maker
Faire in Queens in 2011. The Choir consisted of 250 custom-made electrome-
chanical ish and lobsters that wiggled and sang on the roof of a car.
A sign directing fairgoers at a Maker Faire 2010
in Queens, New York
There's not much speciic information on the background and motivations
of people who describe themselves as Makers. I read a survey—one of the
few I've seen—that asked speciic demographic questions of people in the 3D
printing Maker community. The survey polled 358 people and was created
by an organization called Manufacturing in Motion.
Here's what the survey found. Somewhat like software hackers, Makers tend
to be afluent males from Europe or North America. Female Makers made up
