We knew this was inevitable and will likely prove to be a big boon to the commercial 3D printing market: tabletop and video game characters, playing pieces, and gaming terrain that you can design, customize, and 3D print (either commercially or on your home 3D printer). On July 8th, Amazon announced that […]

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A Maker based in Eugene, Oregon is offering up his hand-built "fossilized" T-Rex bike on Craigslist. Sue is 8.5 feet tall and 12 feet long.

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Adafruit has delivered another in their fantastic educational electronics series called Circuit Playground. Theyre working their way through the alphabet, explaining the principals of electronics in ways that even children can understand. These videos are a great way to introduce kids to the basics (and safety information) involved with electrical […]

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Wood stain is usually applied as an even layer but watch what happens when this woman applies wood stain to create a gorgeous floral pattern!

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As a child of the 90s, I have many fond memories of clutching that clunky Nintendo 64 controller in my grubby little hands, prodding away in pixelated glee. If I could have seen this custom game table 15 years ago, I may have died. Okay, that’s probably an exaggeration, but […]

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Embroidery is a great activity that can add the right aesthetic touch to many sewing projects. From adding a floral print to a hand towel, to adding a bit of flair to your bag! I started to learn embroidery from my mom when I was a kid. I would choose […]

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Izzy Swan designed a walking machine that is powered by a drill and can be ridden like a Segway, but has legs like Jansen's Strandbeest.

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11520 LEDs driven by a Raspberry Pi with only three lines of data. A quest to build my own LED matrix display.

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Its a solution looking for a problem, and hopefully you can find the problem. The solution that puzzle inventor Oskar van Deventer has come up with is a fist-sized 11,373,076:1 gearbox. Thats no typo — to get the output to rotate only once would require over 11 million rotations of the input […]

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This Maker crafted a wooden combination lockbox as his nine-year-old son's Christmas present.

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Sixteen knives (and one meat cleaver) make up this ensemble, which uses percussion and amplified stepper motors to play "Stayin' Alive."

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Vector art files are perfect for making stencils.

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A metal scriber is one of those shop tools that you reach for all the time, without thinking. Its essential for marking out your project lines on metal, and it comes in very handy as a pick or scraper too. It also makes a great first project for your new […]

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The seventh annual Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire is now one month away (August 8, 1pm-8pm, downtown Providence, Rhode Island).

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Today Local Motors announces the winner of its design challenge, Project [Redacted], for a four-seater based on a 3D-printable template.

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Earlier today the BBC announced the final design of its Micro:bit. Based around an ARM core, the board will be given to every 11 or 12 year old child across the UK, for free.

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This project is part 4 in the building a robot arm tutorial. In the first part I show how to design the arm, the second part shows how to design the base, and the third shows how to design the mount. After all of the Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) and 3D modeling […]

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This simple device, using an illusion that dates back to 1896, tricks your brain into feeling like your skin is being burned.

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This highly detailed Super Mario rug took six and a half years to make, and the results are incredible.

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Use some simple electronics to build an IoT printer, like this "Thinking Man" who prints titles from Reddit's Shower Thoughts subreddit.

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