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July 7, 2023
Review: Unihertz Jelly Star: Miniaturized Maker Mobile
Manufacturer: Unihertz Kickstarter Campaign Price: $170 Unihertz Jelly Star: Miniaturized Maker Mobile? I remember my first phone: it was transparent blue, and it … plugged into the wall. But once things became a bit more mobile, I was very excited about innovation in that space too – I recall fondly when phones shrank and shrank, […]
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Give Alexa A Billion Times More Personality With A New Body
When it comes to robot building, Workshop nation points out that we have incredible and amazing technology, but it is lacking in visual personality. Just look at your Alexa or Google home device. They are pretty incredible in terms of technology but they are lacking in aesthetics. OK, some of you may like the minimal […]
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July 6, 2023
Open Source Hardware Certifications For June 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 2300 individual certifications! In June we added […]
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July 5, 2023
Buying All The Woodworking Tool Ads From Instagram
We’ve all been there. You’re browsing the internet and you get ads that are obviously catered to you based on all the spying that your device is doing. It fits right into your interests and often looks too good to be true. Is it a scam? Is it junk? David Picciuto thought it would be […]
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July 3, 2023
Creating A Magical Wizard’s Study With Nerdforge
Martina and Hans at Nerdforge really keep upping the quality and scale of their work and they’ve really blown us away with this one. The concept sketch looks very incredible. If someone showed me that concept, I’d probably recommend they scale back their expectations. Nerdforge, however, delivers absolutely. The spiral staircase and fire place stand […]
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June 30, 2023
Cramming CircuitPython Into Your Baby’s Toys
What does any self respecting electronics wiz do when they have a house full of baby toys and the knowledge to build custom circuitry? Obviously you customize stuff to play better music. Adafruit has just shown some prototypes of their new “Toy Hacker” board. It has an esp32-s2 as it’s brain, which means it has […]
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June 29, 2023
Turning A Truck Into A Giant Dot Matrix Printer
When Ryder set his mind to creating a massive dot matrix printer, he also decided that it would be awesome to drive it. Now he has a truck that can write on the road as it drives. The idea here is relatively simple. A bit of water on the road creates a dark spot. If […]
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June 28, 2023
Christiaan Huygens and the Pendulum Clock
The Scientific Revolution was a momentous time. Most historians of science agree that during this era — 1500 to 1700 CE — people started thinking differently, more scientifically, about the way the world worked. Many began to think of the world as being an orderly machine, one in which laws and rules controlled the way nature […]
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June 26, 2023
Build Your First Combat Bot!
Want to build your own battle robot? Today’s the day. Kerfuffle is a mini bot designed to inflict mechanical damage to other machines in caged combat. If you’ve ever seen the show BattleBots then you already have a very solid idea of how these robots operate. Kerfuffle is a 1lb robot in the plastic antweight class, meaning […]
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Arduino UNO R4 WiFi
The Arduino UNO, first announced at our own Maker Faire, is one of the — if not the — most recognizable icons of the maker movement. It was an Uno-like board, the Diecimila, that got this humble author excited about hacking on electronics projects, and I’ve continued my love affair with the brand ever since. […]
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