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Repair and Maintain Your Bike with These 6 Projects

Get your wheels into tip-top shape for the coming riding season with these bike repair projects.

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This Week in Making: Marble Machines, Filament Tips, and More

This past week we celebrate Arduino Day with Makers like, saw a new marble machine, and started a conversation about how coding is taught.

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Weekend Watch: This Hydraulic Press Channel Is Crushing It

"Under so much force, just about everything eventually starts to behave like a liquid, or at least some sort of putty."

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Making a TSA-Compliant Multitool

Modify a multitool so that it complies with TSA guidelines and can (theoretically) be carried on a plane.

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VR Comes to Hackathons with Latest Oculus Rift and MLH Partnership

High school and university students will soon be getting the opportunity to use Oculus Rift as part of their next MLH hackathon experience.

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A Mechanical Engineer’s Quick Tips for Using Gears

Here are some quick tips on making gears for your next project (plus links to some more exhaustive gear resources if you've got the time).

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Tickle Me Elmo? How About Dissect and Modify Elmo?

This dancing and singing Elmo gets a new look and sound with some clever electronics hacking.

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How It’s Made: A Wooden Reciprocating Rack and Pinion

What is a reciprocating rack and pinion? It's a geared mechanism that turns rotary movement into linear movement.

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Car Hacking 101: Tools of the Trade

The Car Hacker's Handbook by Craig Smith is a great resource for hacking the software and embedded computer systems in cars.

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Simone Giertz Joins “Tested,” Builds Popcorn Feeding Helmet

Crappy robot maker, techno-humorist, and all-around awesome human Simone Giertz builds a popcorn helmet with Adam Savage.

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