Makerspaces are becoming a fixture on college and university campuses. In fact, there are often multiple makerspaces on campus. At the University of Maryland, College Park, the growth of makerspaces followed a pattern Ive seen elsewhere. Student-driven makerspace were started, often as clubs, and then professors started spaces with departmental funding, but now larger makerspaces [&]

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About ten years ago, we designed and made an Arduino shield implementing “core memory,” a technology that was sixty years old even then. Our shield stored 32 individual 1s or 0s using magnetic fields going either clockwise or anticlockwise around 32 tiny doughnuts of magnetisable ‘ferrite’ material. This kind of memory, invented in the 1950s, [&]

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This house-sized skeleton is probably the biggest we've ever seen.

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Get that color looking fantastic through your entire video with some color grading. Read on to learn how to get started.

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Follow my journey about how I make a two part silicone mold and then cast black resin parts.

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Maker Faire Shanghai returns this weekend with an awesome line up of makers, movers, and shakers as well as hands on activities for the whole family.

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Housed in one of the world's finest libraries, DOKK1, Maker Faire Aarhus gets real on how the brain works and what "brain play" means.

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dirt cheap SLA printers are opening all kinds of doors to new applications

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tips and tricks to create this collapsible container

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Get the look of antique wallpaper using a lace curtain panel and a spray gun.

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Meet Collin Sage, two time winner of the Forged In Fire blacksmithing competition show

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“People think of electronics as a field that changes fast, but the fundamentals dont change, said Charles Platt, author of Make: Electronics. Everything is still made out of transistors; the only difference since 1975 is that the transistors have become smaller! The information in my book is as topical as ever, and it will still [&]

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Meet the artist Vojtech Stulc, and see the steel and fire works he's created.

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Need to quickly make a distressed sign for your Halloween display, haunted house, or just as decor? In this tutorial, you’ll learn the steps to create your own distressed sign with basic paints and common craft tools. While I chose to do a rusted sign for my Halloween display, this same faux painting technique will [&]

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Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition returns in "phygital" format October 7-10 with an awesome diversity of amazing innovation, art, and maker ingenuity.

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SOLIDWORKS has announced that they have a new offering, specifically for makers! You can now get 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers, a whole suite of cloud based tools, for $99 a year. Lets take a look at some of the awesome stuff that comes in 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS for Makers. First off, you receive 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS, which [&]

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take a tour of Adafruit and see how electronics are manufactured in New York

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FabLab Croatia and its partner organizations bring creativity, technology, and innovation back to Croatia's capital in 2021!

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Maker Faire Tokyo 2021 is online and taking Twitter by storm this weekend. All makers welcome to join in the fun!

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Tombstones are a must for any Halloween lover, but store-bought ones always seem a bit underwhelming. With this tutorial and some common materials from your local hardware and craft stores, you can make realistic tombstones that would fool the dead! In this video I’ll cover shaping, carving, texturing, and painting/weathering. Materials youll need: -Insulating foam [&]

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