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Quarantined Cosplayers Coping with Covid

Social distancing trick-or-treating? Virtual costume parties? These are just a few of the ways cosplayers adjusted their Halloween festivities this year due to Covid-19. But it’s gone way beyond Halloween. Everyone has made adjustments to stay safe during the pandemic, and this includes all of your favorite content creators as […]

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Raspberry Pi’s Latest Offering Packs The Whole Computer Into A Keyboard

The Raspberry Pi has always been able to claim that it is a full computer, all you have to do is plug it into all the external components like a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to get going. However, it has been sold as a bare board since it’s conception, keeping […]

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Make:cast – Make Anything with Open Source Projects

Episode 3: Joshua Pearce on Open Source In the third episode of Make:Cast, I talk with Joshua Pearce about his new book, “Create, Share and Save Money Using Open Source Projects.” Joshua is a professor of materials science and electrical engineering at Michigan Tech University where he directs the Michigan […]

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Happy Halloween: Maker Camp Spooktacular

It’s no secret that Halloween is a day that makers love. And, its great to see that childhood passion for trick-or-treating transform into a love of cosplay and costume creation and prop building. So this week and last we reached out to some of our favorite Maker Camp hosts to […]

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Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Make a Miraculous Marangoni Soap Boat

Here's an example of the Marangoni effect at work. As a bit of detergent is placed in the cut out circle, the difference in surface tension propels the little boat forward.

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Insert Some Halloween Into Your CircuitPython Learning

Tod Kurt has been doing a wonderful series of tutorials to help you learn CircuitPython. Of course, being October, he’s chosen a spooky theme. If you’ve ever wanted to know how to do a 2 axis gimbal, this simple little eyeball project will give you all you need to know, […]

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Tips And Tricks: Sculpting Ram’s Horns From EVA Foam

Cosplay horns are a right of passage, and here's how to make some awesome ones

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Fine Tune Your Resin 3D Print Supports

Create support structures for your SLA, DLP, or LCD resin prints — the right way

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Cool Crowdfunding: 360 Video Drones, 3D Printers, And Video Production Lessons

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 […]

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This Clever Halloween Hack Uses Real Animoji And Face Filters As A Mask

The face detecting features of many platforms have gotten pretty impressive. From snapchat filters to Apples Animojis, we can put all kinds of fantastic effects on our faces in real time. This neat feature was unfortunately locked inside the device, until now. Make: Projects user Lenny3000 shared this project where […]

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