Electronics greeting cards are a great, approachable project for beginners to assemble in under an hour. You wont need to plug in a soldering iron, since these cards are wired using a special conductive foil tape. Not only is this tape conductive, its super sticky and it remains conductive even […]

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East London-based engineering and designing studio Bare Conductive recently developed a new digital musical instrument accessible to everyone, including those with physical disabilities. The new technology allows an artist to express himself freely through music, regardless of physical limitations. It is one of the first instruments that is accessible for […]

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The biggest news coming out of Maker Faire Shenzhen, outside the size and intensity of the event itself, was the announcement made by Massimo Banzi that Arduino boards using the name Genuino will be made in China by Seeed Studio. There have been plenty of Arduino clones made in China that closely […]

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Devoted fiber artist Sarah Stollack has taken knitting into the realm of rock and roll with her handcrafted guitars. Stollack has said, My unique hand-knitted guitars are crafted to replicate some of the most iconic guitars in the world. These cozy creations are my soft rock to the hard rock the […]

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The only thing better than watching an entertaining science project and learning something new is watching and learning it from someone a quarter of my age. Samatha, 6, explains in the video below how to quickly and easily build a “cloud chamber,” otherwise known as a cosmic ray detector, with […]

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Everyone has a Maker in them. We make for fun and exploration, we make to test ideas, and we make to solve real-world problems. Ponytrap wasnt intended to be a Maker band — we just seemed to have a difficult time finding a drummer that wanted to play the classically-inspired tribal rhythm industrial music that […]

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Ride along with Baron von Jabba and his Creature Quad creation Miss Tickle at Maker Faire 2015.

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Knitting is a popular needlecraft, but it can get tiring knitting larger pieces. Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet came up with a clever way to automate the process with this open source, open design, 3D printed circular knitting machine called the Circular Knitic. This idea didnt just come out of thin […]

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Human Meteors is an immersive re-creation of the classic Atari game known as Asteroids.

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Buttercup might just be the cutest duck around. He has been in love, cared for a teddy bear, and is able to run and swim with the aid of his specialized 3D printed foot. Buttercup was born with a twisted left foot that was not able to fully rotate forward. In […]

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Arduino and SeeedStudio have entered a manufacturing partnership to produce the new Genuino branded boards for China and other Asian markets.

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Over the first few years of their existence, Makerbot leveraged their community and the bourgeoning open source hardware movement to make their name synonymous with desktop 3D printing. What Kleenex is to facial tissue or Scotch is to cellophane tape, Makerbot has come to be for 3D printing. But then came a […]

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Pop quiz: What does the top edge of say, your utility closet door look like? Im betting that youve never seen it, even if youve lived in your home for awhile. And although theres not a lot of room to stash stuff in there, well, if youre like me, the stuff […]

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I love this watercolor tutorial using a scene from Mad Max: Fury Road as the subject. Well-known artist/illustrator Scott C. (Scott Campbell) shows you how he uses reference shots from the film, does some preliminary sketches, composites the scene based on those sketches, and then, casually step-by-step, how he went […]

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Exploring what is possible with robots and how to design a robot arm.

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Forget the gifts this Fathers Day! With busy work and school schedules, after school activities, clubs, and personal projects, time is the best present a dad can get. So in the spirit of spending time with dad, here are a handful of engaging projects that are fun to build together so […]

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Most 3D printers need complex motion systems to draw out the pattern of the object being printed. FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) printers need rigid x/y stages; SLA (Stereolithography) printers use galvanometers to move their laser around; but DLP (Digital Light Processing) printers dont need any of these — they flash an entire layer at […]

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How InMoov, the open-source, 3D-printed humanoid robot was born.

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The first National Maker Faire was this past Friday and Saturday in the nations capital on the University of the District of Columbia campus. While Dale Dougherty didnt exactly talk to all the thousands of attendees expected to be in attendance at this inaugural event, the founder of both Make: […]

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Last year, President Barack Obama announced June 18 to be the official National Day of Making. This announcement confirmed what we at Make: all felt: We are a Nation of Makers! We challenge you to celebrate today by making something. Make anything! Simply enjoy the act of making and post a picture […]

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