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March 18, 2021
Cricut Listened To The Community, Is Abandoning Unfair Limitations

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 Is Looking For Musicians

The Maker Music Festival celebrates the makers of innovative, experimental and just plain unusual musical instruments.
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March 17, 2021
Make:cast – Making Things That Don’t Yet Exist

Industrial Designer Neil Cohen How do you transform ordinary stuff into meaningful things, even beautiful things? How you make things that don’t yet exist, something original rather than a copy? That’s 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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Particle Launches New EtherSIM Platform with Free-To-Use Cellular Data

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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Review: Luxonis Oak-D AI Camera with Computer Vision and Image Depth

When Microsoft released the Kinect, the first widely available depth camera, artists and makers quickly flocked to it, discovering how to access the camera’s depth data and ability to capture human motion. The result was a slew of new projects that capitalized on an interface that didn’t require a screen, buttons or a mouse. After […]
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March 16, 2021
Cricut CEO Responds To Controversial Update

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 weren’t a paying member of their online service. The community was very outspoken, expressing feelings that this was unfairly limiting machines that they owned, and that had […]
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Cool Crowdfunding: Vacuum Former and Hologram Printing
our latest collection of cool crowdfunding campaigns. Today, it is all desktop maker machines
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March 15, 2021
Cricut’s Unfair Lockdown

With their latest update, you have to pay to use more than 20 files per month. Here's what's up, and some alternative machines to look at.
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March 13, 2021
Play the Piper for Pi Day

Shree Bose shares Piper Make, a browser-based coding platform based on the Raspberry PI Pico and a block-programming interface based on Google Blockly. This new product launches on Pi Day 2021.
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March 11, 2021
Celebrate Pi Day With A Little Bit of Competition!

Show us your awesome Raspberry Pi projects for a chance to win!
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