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Join Us Tonight for a Chat With Kate Hartman on Wearable Electronics!

Dale Dougherty and Make: Wearable Electronics author Kate Hartman welcome you to the amazing world of wearable electronics!

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Open Source Hardware Certifications for January 2025

Take a look at our 3 favorite open source hardware certifications for January 2025.

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From OpenROV to Ocean Xplorers – Eric Stackpole

Eric Stackpole likes doing things the hard way, so he founded Sofar Ocean and, along with David Lang, helped design OpenROV.

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Laser Eye Safety in Digital Fabrication: Protecting Your Vision

Safeguard your vision while working with laser tooling so you can unleash your creative potential.

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Build a Better Screen Lock: Smartphone Safe

This time-controlled smartphone safe makes your phone disappear for a while and frees up time for other things.

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Pinball Restoration Revival

Wormhole players and collectors come together around pinball tournaments and keeping machines running. See the finer points of pinball restoration.

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Get Your Bearings With Compass Handheld CNC Router

The concept of a handheld CNC machine may seem backwards. CNCs are big hunks of metal with spinning blades. Why would I ever put one of these into my hands?

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Flashback: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer

Build a camera-stabilizing rig for Steadicam smooth shots with instructions from "$14 Video Camera Stabilizer" from Make: 01

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Rebble Strikes Back with Nonprofit, Hackathon, and OS ambitions

Rebble, the organization dedicated to keeping Pebble smartwatches alive after the demise of the original company in 2016, celebrated their eighth year last December — significantly outlasting the original organization itself thanks to the staunch commitment of countless contributors, fans, and supporters. It may seem unlikely at first, but 2025 is perhaps shaping up to […]

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3D Print Your Shirt with James Novak

3D Print Your Shirt is a startup mixing textiles and 3D printing to add a new level of customization to print on demand garments.

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