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October 18, 2019
Maker Business Spotlight: Aide Memoire Jewelry
Aran Galligan from Aide Memoire Jewelry was nice enough to give me not one, but THREE tours of her space. We had connectivity issues and then after that I completely goofed and didn’t record. Luckily, the third time was a charm because I really enjoyed this tour. I’ve always been […]
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October 17, 2019
5 Mechanical Celestial Models From Paper To Brass
A multitude of materials lend themselves to creating these mechanical orreries
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October 16, 2019
Bio Inspired: Many NASA Rover Concepts Evoke Living Creatures
This is an excerpt from Make: Soft Robotics, A DIY Introduction to Squishy, Stretchy, and Flexible Robots. Find it at here. As NASA-funded soft robotic and compliant system concepts begin to attract attention, we jokingly refer to the rover concepts as the “Menagerie” since so many take research inspiration […]
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October 15, 2019
Easy Glass Block Night Light
There’s something very relaxing about fairy lights, but only Carrie Fisher could get away with keeping her Christmas tree up all year. This project lets you keep the festive feeling alive year-round — plus it’s a great night light or custom gift. YOU WILL NEED KraftyBlok or similar crafting glass block […]
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October 14, 2019
Where In World Is the ISS? Three Ways To Locate Humanity’s Only Space Outpost
When China’s Tiangong-1 burned up last year, it left the International Space Station (ISS) as humanity’s sole outpost in space. Today six astronauts live aboard the ISS, performing spacewalks and science experiments, filming scenes for an upcoming virtual-reality series, and unloading cargo deliveries from capsules like Northrop’s Cygnus and SpaceX’s […]
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October 11, 2019
Have You Seen Our Live Makerspace Tours Yet?
We’ve recently been doing a very fun series with the help of our partner Digi-Key Electronics. We’ve been dialing into makerspaces all over and getting a live tour! We announce who and when on our twitter and facebook ahead of time so keep an eye on them to see who […]
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A Brief History of FPGA
In the easy-to-follow book Make: FPGAs — Turning Software into Hardware with Eight Fun & Easy DIY Projects, author David Romano details the ins-and-outs of the hyper-configurable field-programmable gate array (FPGA) boards and explains how — and why — to get started with these advanced devices. The following is excerpted […]
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October 10, 2019
6 AIY Projects To Try Today
Over the past two years, makers have created innovative and surprising projects with their Google AIY kits. here are a few that you may want to try yourself! Translation Toy An animatronic toy is a great place to start hacking. In Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz’s case, he used a Star Wars Porg […]
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October 9, 2019
Doubling Down: Google’s AIY Endeavor Leads To A Brand New Board
Google AI is committed to bringing the benefits of AI to everyone, and one of the ways we do this is by building tools to ensure that everyone can access AI. In 2016 I started AIY (do-it-yourself AI) as a new initiative from Google to help students and makers learn […]
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October 8, 2019
CNC Stand-Up Paddleboard
Use a CNC router to build a beautiful, hollow wooden stand-up paddleboard.
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