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June 26, 2017
Refurbishing Old Hot Wheels Toy Cars
Watch as a toy car hobbyist brings badly rusted and broken Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars back to life.
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Register Now for Tormach’s Weekend of Training and Machining Fun
Tormach Tech Days will feature a mixture of training and show and tell. Pros from the CNC machining industry will be there as teachers.
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Retrohack Your Old Computer Terminal from Dialup to Wi-Fi
A long-time dream project of Hep Svadja has been trying to hack together a way to get her old computer terminal to work again.
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June 25, 2017
Maker Faire Kansas City 2017: Live Updates
Union Station in Kansas City is overflowing with makers!
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This Week in Making: Decentralize the Web, Girl Scouts Tackle Cybersecurity, and More
This week, Mozilla is trying to get makers to decentralize the web, the Girl Scouts tackle cybersecurity, board games go virtual, and more.
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June 24, 2017
Weekend Watch: Engineering a TrotBot to Climb Stairs and Rugged Terrain
To test his skills as a roboticist, Ben Vagle decided to test how his Lego TrotBot robots performed on 1/3-scale stairs.
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June 23, 2017
Building 1,000 Toy Trucks: Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Shares the Love
Now in its 8th year, Maker Faire Kansas City is happening this weekend. Join in the fun and see what the Kansas City Woodworkers Guild is up to!
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Tips of the Week: Zip Tie Twisting, 3D Printing Sanding Grips, and the Orbital Sawing Stroke
Another week of useful shop trickery, including a must-know zip tie trick, from makers in cyberspace.
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Bayview Boom Teaches Teens How to Build Their Own Boombox
Bayview BOOM teaches teens electronics assembly, woodworking, metalworking and product design so they can build their own boomboxes.
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Celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday with a Giant Cardboard Maple Leaf
Celebrate the 150 year anniversary of Canada becoming a country this July by building this cardboard maple leaf display.
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