We receive so many pitches for crowdfunding projects. They pour into our inbox daily. Since crowdfunding is a bit of a gamble, it is always kind of hard to determine just how to write about these projects, considering that many of them may not ever deliver. Cool Crowdfunding is our way of sharing some of [&]

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It's hard to believe that this footage isn't sped up. How can a printer move that fast?

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As part of a $50 million grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2017, the Maker Library & Innovative Learning Complex of the Future is under construction on campus. The new $17.5 million building will house a makerspace open to all students. Austin McChord is the RIT donor and I talk to him in this episode of Make:cast.

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Name: Susan Where are you located?  We run our office from Seattle What is your day job? Im a speech pathologist during weekdays. Instagram | Pinterest | Youtube | Website What kinds of stuff do you make? We do DIY Woodworking projects. We focus on easy to do, beginner friendly, furniture projects. We think about [&]

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Pulling off a three-day Virtual Maker Faire in the midst of a pandemic is a feat; keeping the making going all year long takes vision and dedication. The team at Miami’s Moonlighter FabLab—co-founders Tom & Daisy Pupo and “Mario The Maker” Cruz—have done all that (and more) and are keeping busy as 2021 unfolds. In [&]

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the latest cool crowdfunding campaigns

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Based in Iran, Amelia is hard at work on a low-cost printhead tool changer for 3D printers, which allows for multi-material 3D prints among other potential functions. A maker of various smart and mechanical builds, her endeavors are impressive, and her creativity and enthusiasm seems boundless. We reached out to find out more about her. [&]

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Mosaic's new offerings span from the home printer all the way to institutions and manufacturing

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“Innovation is not only about finding a way to use pre-existing theory or solutions into a new problem, it’s also multidisciplinary, has to be practical and it’s not something that people just do on their own” Brian, US  “Before, I thought projects are just for school or work. Now I have a list of projects [&]

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In this conversation with Helen Leigh, we talk about technology from reel-to-reel tape recorders to synthesizers and to making electronic music with Makey-Makey and the Bela board. Helen is an advocate for people learning how to make their own instruments, to experiment with music and be makers of your own kind of music.

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Here are a few tips to get that code whipped into shape!

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We've delivered 274 desks and stools so far, and hope to get 1,000 out the door by the end of the semester.

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Its always a pleasure when a maker that weve met at Maker Faire turns up in an unexpected place. Thats just what happened this week when Maker Faire Bay Area maker Leif Maginnis was put to the test on the History Channel show Assembly Required. Last we saw his work, he was busy in the [&]

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A letter from the CEO outlines how Cricut will not be moving forward with their plans for a paid membership structure limiting use.

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The Maker Music Festival celebrates the makers of innovative, experimental and just plain unusual musical instruments.

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Industrial Designer Neil Cohen How do you transform ordinary stuff into meaningful things, even beautiful things? How you make things that dont yet exist, something original rather than a copy? Thats the topic of this conversation between New York-based industrial designer Neil Cohen and Dale Dougherty of Make Magazine. Some of what I do in [&]

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Today at their online Spectra conference, Particle announced their new cellular-based IoT platform called EtherSIM, which opens their devices to a large network of carriers worldwide and adds the data plans into the Particle platform subscription price for professional users. Alongside, they also unveiled the Particle Free Plan which lets smaller users and makers access [&]

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When Microsoft released the Kinect, the first widely available depth camera, artists and makers quickly flocked to it, discovering how to access the cameras depth data and ability to capture human motion. The result was a slew of new projects that capitalized on an interface that didnt require a screen, buttons or a mouse. After [&]

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Update 3/18: Cricut has made another statement, completely abandoning the limitations Over the weekend, the maker community had many things to say about an update from Cricut that limited the number of jobs your machine could run if you werent a paying member of their online service. The community was very outspoken, expressing feelings that [&]

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our latest collection of cool crowdfunding campaigns. Today, it is all desktop maker machines

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