Name  Bill Locke Where are you located?  Canton OH What is your day job?  Systems Administrator Do you attend a makerspace/fablab/hackerspace?  yes CHAMP Makerspace in Canton Makerspace Website What kinds of stuff do you make?  combat Robots, 3d printers, Misc ElectronicsHow did you get started making stuff? *I have been doing it my whole life. My [&]

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Name  Kody Greene Where are you located?  Copley Ohio What is your day job?  Free Lance with my KRG Props and Replicas Do you attend a makerspace/fablab/hackerspace?  I have attended the Akron Makerspace Official Website | Instagram | Facebook What kinds of stuff do you make?  I generally make anything from helmets to full droid [&]

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Have you ever thought about how makers measure their success? Obviously, making a successful project is a pretty good sign. But, what about the times where a project doesn’t work like you envision? I’m talking about when the making process of brainstorming, prototyping, and creating results in, well, nothing. A flop. A failure. A pile [&]

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Machine learning (ML) is a growing field, gaining popularity in academia, industry, and among makers. We will take a look at some of the available tools to help make machine learning easier, but first, let’s review some of the terms commonly used in machine learning. John McCarthy provides a definition of artificial intelligence (AI) in [&]

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The host of Ugly Duckling House shares her contemporaries' reasons for avoiding YouTube

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Science writer and creative maker Erin Winick has come up with a simple yet fantastic project for some customizable glasses. Like most great ideas, hers started small. She realized that she could make accessories to fit the existing magnets on her Pair Eyewear. Having a 3D printer and easy access to tiny magnets via amazon, [&]

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In a big announcement today, Ultimaker and MakerBot have announced a merger to form a new entity. MakerBot and Ultimaker are names youve seen grace these pages for many years now. They were early players in the desktop additive manufacturing space, appearing at Maker Faires and gracing schools and makerspaces for years. The last few [&]

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DIY lifer Gareth Branwyn has compiled a new volume of his series, Tips and Tales of the Workshop, Volume 2. He joins Dale Dougherty to talk about how he collects tips  asking a person directly to share a tip is not very productive. He shares some of his favorite tips he has found. He [&]

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When in Rome, make! Maker Faire Rome hosts its 10th faire the October 7th through 9th. Show the world what you're making at this year's largest Maker Faire.

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You may have been hearing rumors of a team traveling around the world interviewing makers for a new show exploring the growth of the maker community. As it turns out, A League of Extraordinary Makers is finally here and you can watch it! Heres the trailer, and you can see it is looking pretty good. [&]

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Ben Eadie has come up with a pretty clever design trick to greatly reduce the time required to print objects. Dont be fooled by the thumbnail of the video, hes not just hollowing his models, theres a lot more to it. As you can see, what Ben is doing is kind of manually generating a [&]

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How to Easily embed animations into your 3D printing timelapses

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May the 4th has become a day of celebration for Star Wars fans worldwide. What a better way to celebrate than to put your futuristic 3D printing machine to work to create a piece of Star Wars memorabilia and props. Here are 14 fantastic 3D prints to get you started. Statues Master Yoda by Fotus [&]

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These 10 rules could turn you into a champ.

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Apple has, for a long time, been one of the examples commonly brought out to show consumer unfriendly practices when it comes to repair. However, the company has recently announced the availability of tools for do-it-yourself repairs, that are officially approved. Thats a huge step in the battle for the right to repair, a topic [&]

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How I built an AI nose that “knows” fungal pneumonia for my 8th grade science fair.

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The Kids Are Like Me. Until she got to college, Julie Darling didnt realize that sitting and listening to teachers wasnt how she learned best. She didnt like sitting still. She had to keep her hands moving, if not her body. When she became an educator, she realized that the kids that she was looking [&]

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Weve all seen people goof around with a magnifying glass in the sun, but this project takes it to a new level. Cranktown City has uploaded this fantastically amusing project that is sure to impress. He built a cnc controlled engraving machine that uses the sun instead of a laser tube. As he explains in [&]

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Meet Aurora and Helios, and check out their in-depth 3D Printer reviews

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Sometimes something comes along that really captures your attention, not only because it is cool, but also because it is a clever re-use of things youve already considered to be common. Joshua Ellingsons experiments came up in my twitter timeline recently and I was instantly enamored. Ellingson managed to somehow capture the video output of [&]

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