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June 26, 2015
Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference
O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained […]
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Adam Savage Builds a Multi-Tool Holster from Aluminum
In this Tested: One Day Build video, with Adam Savage and Will Smith, Adam decides to upgrade one of his Leatherman Wave cases with a belt-borne, one-finger-access clip holster. He decides to use a scrap piece of aluminum for the build. He also plans to upgrade his previous design of […]
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New Project: Rheoscopic Disc Coffee Table
[Editor’s Note: The Rheoscopic Disc Coffee Table is a project we liked so much, we decided to add a video to it and flush out the final steps for mounting the disc inside of the table.] When I last visited the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, I saw a really […]
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This Clockwork Carpenter Is Made from a Single 2×4
This clockwork carpenter is an automaton, which is a self-operating machine that can be made out of different materials. Evidence of them dates back hundreds of years, and I’m always excited when I see a new one pop up. I’ve mostly seen them made out of paper, but it’s a real […]
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Make This Floating Pool Noodle Beverage Boat in 15 Minutes
Have a plastic tub and a pool noodle? Your day at the beach/pool/lake just got a whole lot better with this floating pool noodle beverage boat! The problem with open water? Nowhere to put that much-needed beverage. The solution: Build your booze (and soda and juice) a boat! (Obviously.) Planning […]
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New 3D Printer Uses Molten Glass
Micron 3DP, a maker of extruders for 3D printing, has been exploring an exciting new area: 3D Printing with glass. This exploration seems like a somewhat natural transition for the company. The “hot end” of the 3D printer is the part of the extruder assembly that literally melts the plastic […]
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This Giant Table and Chairs Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again
3 For Life reminds adults what it's like to be kids. It's also fun for kids.
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New Project: Building a Robot Arm Part 2: Designing the Solid Base
This project is part 2 in the building a robot arm tutorial. In the first part, I showed how to design the robot arm. In part one of making a robot arm, we explored a lot of things like 3D computer aided drafting software, or CAD for short, and 3D […]
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June 25, 2015
10 Fun Things to See and Do at Maker Faire Kansas City
This weekend, June 27 and 28, at historic Kansas City Union Station, marks the fifth annual Maker Faire Kansas City. Through the tireless efforts of the organizing team, led by Jerry Baber (and the continued support of founding sponsors Kaufmann Foundation), the event has grown and flourished exponentially over the […]
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LittleBits Receives $44.2M in Funding, Names New Key Hires
LittleBits, the New York-based open source hardware startup that produces modular snap-together circuitry kits, announced this morning that it has raised just over $44 million in its Series B funding from DFJ Growth as well as Morgan Stanley, Grishin Robotics, and Wamda Capital, among others. This is one of the largest […]
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