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Let it Snow with Particle’s Fun New Holiday PCB

“Oh, the weather outside is frightful” – honestly, it’s 56 degrees – not bad for mid-December in Michigan? “But the fire is so delightful” (frantically checks 3d printers, soldering equipment etc.) – what fire?! “And since we’ve no place to go” OK, fair… “Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!” – again, 56 […]

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AI Robots for Kids

This episode features an interview with the authors of a new book from Make: titled “AI Robots” which includes Reade Richard, Andy Forest, Brenda Shivanandan and Denzel Edwards. The book teaches kids how to build AI-powered projects using hands-on activities and coding. Each project has four different sections that include the physical build, electronics, coding […]

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Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather with I2S Audio Amplifier

Adafruit has been building a number of Feathers around the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s RP2040 microcontroller, each with a different set of peripherals squeezed into the Feather’s small form factor. This iteration of the Feather is aimed at making portable “props” with interactive lights and sound. Really any interactive device with lights and sound can benefit […]

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This Video Feedback Art Piece Is Like An Interactive Hallucination

Some clever placement of cameras, glass, and displays brings this video feedback art piece together

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Bambu Announces New 3D Printer: The A1

Hot on the heels of the recent announcement of the A1 Mini (September) and the X1E (October), a new machine has been released into the wild. This is the A1. First off, lets hit the main specs: the price landed at $399 without AMS, $559 with AMS This machine appears to be a bed slinger […]

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3D Printer Review: Elegoo Jupiter SE

We get hands-on in our review of the Elegoo Jupiter SE 3D printer. It's big and super high resolution, but does it deliver?

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This Mechanically Stable Robot Wheel Is Just Plain Fun To Watch

James Bruton tackles a novel concept for a robot wheel and the results are very fun to watch

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India Gets Busy @ Maker Faire Hyderabad This Weekend

This weekend, India's largest celebration of makers takes place at India's largest and newest innovation hub - T-Works in the central Indian city of Hyderabad.

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Open Source Hardware Certifications For November 2023

The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware.  Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard. Currently the Certification database lists over 2600 individual certifications! In November we added […]

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Gift Guide: Make Editors Top Picks For 2023

Our editors have put out their top picks for our 2023 gift guide

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