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June 23, 2023
Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI
The Adafruit Feather RP2040 with DVI is a microcontroller board capable of DVI digital video output on an HDMI port. That it is possible for a general-purpose microcontroller to generate a DVI signal is impressive, but it requires running the RP2040 beyond its limits. When the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced its RP2040 microcontroller, one standout […]
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3D Print A Fractal Vise That Can Hold Odd Shapes
If you were on YouTube in June 2021, there’s a good chance you were recommended the video “Rare Antique Fractal Vise [Restoration]” by Hand Tool Rescue. The video showed a unique vise patented in 1913, and for most of us, it was like nothing we had ever seen (below). It immediately gained traction, receiving over 12 […]
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June 21, 2023
Rescuing Old Arcade Cabinets Is A Sacred Hobby
For a couple generations of folks, old arcade cabinets are sacred relics. The amount of nostalgia both from childhood memories of gaming at the big arcades and from folks who relish in the early days of computing and game development is quite high. This log, detailing the revival of an old Defender arcade cabinet just […]
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June 20, 2023
MY Maker PCBA: Your Electronics For A Better Planet Contest at Maker Faire Rome 2023
This year Maker Faire Rome: The European Edition and FAE Technology launch the contest MY Maker PCBA: Your Electronics for a Better Planet to rewards the most innovative projects in areas related to environmental sustainability.
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Smart3: The Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
In the summer of 2015, I went to my first Maker Faire, in Tokyo, Japan. Afterward, I could only think about the challenge of making something. It moved me so much that I left the company where I worked as a programmer for 16 years and became a full-time maker. I challenged myself to create something […]
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June 19, 2023
A Can Full of Tone
Vintage Gibson electric guitars had a special circuit for modifying the sound of the pickups: the Vari Tone (Figure A). You could set the knob to get six different guitar sounds, from a funky nasal tone to a full-bodied sound. Here’s an effects box version of that famous circuit for your own guitar that you can build […]
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June 16, 2023
MacGyver Challenge: Death Valley Blowout
Think you could MacGyver your way out of a dangerous situation? Solve this emergency scenario in a creative way and your solution could be featured in the next issue of Make: magazine! Submit your answer down below by June 30. Written by MacGyver TV creator Lee David Zlotoff and his partner in predicaments, Rhett Allain, […]
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June 15, 2023
Recreating Galileo’s Sector
The sector, also known as the compass of proportion, is a fun and easy-to-use calculating device that uses the power of geometry to perform a variety of useful math jobs. Although at first glance a sector might seem as quaint and old-school as a slide rule, it can do at least a few maker-style jobs better, faster, […]
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June 13, 2023
DIY Mobile Handwash Station
In times like these you learn to … lather up. Everybody needs hand hygiene, everywhere. Most of us take it for granted but for some, it’s just not readily available. LavaMaex is a nonprofit accelerator changing the way the world sees and serves our unhoused neighbors. Our goal is to teach the world how to take critical […]
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DFRobot Launches UNIHIKER All-In-One Single-Board Computer Lab
Products like the Arduino UNO and Raspberry Pi have proven nothing short of revolutionary in the maker community by taking something which already existed in various forms and just doing it that much better that it changed the world. DFRobot may be hoping to spark a similar revolution with their unique new single-board computer (SBC), […]
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