On Saturday, I made it out to the first full-blown Maker Faire put on by anyone other that Make Magazine and O’Reilly Media. O’Reilly Media developed a playbook for organizing and executing the event, and Kansas City was home to the pilot of that program, using the historic Union Station as the venue. The event…

Maker Faire: Kansas City earlier this week announced the addition of speeches by Maker Faire’s organizers to its schedule of events. Dale Dougherty (left) and Tim O’Reilly (right), co-founders of O’Reilly Media, organize Maker Faires, which are family-friendly events to make, create, learn, invent, craft, recycle …