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May 22, 2015
New Project: The $5 Cracker Box Amp
Build this workable little practice amp in about an hour.
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Tell Time with this 3D Printed Portable Sundial
Sundials have been used to tell time for thousands of years. People have been able to tell you what time of day it is pretty accurately with just a stick (known as a style), a shadow, and some markings on the ground. Nowadays, not many people know how to read sundials […]
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New Project: Make a Warren Truss Bridge with Popsicle Sticks
Build the simple span that launched the great age of iron bridge building.
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Build Your Own Beautiful Custom Snare Drum
For most people, playing drums is all about perfecting the skill of actually playing. In Tom Featherstone’s case, however, he decided to learn how to actually build them as well. Featherstone got his start with the “technical side” of drums by first taking apart his 10-year-old electronic drum kit to replace […]
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10 Projects to Keep You Busy Over a 3-Day Weekend
A 3-day weekend is approaching and it’s a great opportunity to sit down, by yourself or with your kids, and work on a project. There are so many projects to choose from on makezine.com, but here is a quick collection of 10 fun projects that would be great for this weekend. […]
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New Project: Build a Quadcopter Drone with a Self-leveling Camera Gimbal
Build your own quadrotor airframe from hardware store parts, then trick it out with stabilized onboard video and autonomous flight.
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Watch a DJ Control a Tesla Coil With His Turntable
It doesn’t get much better than the world renowned DJ Qbert scratching insanely fast, except when every scratch is not just expressed as sound, but also sparks off of a tesla coil. That’s exactly what took place during Maker Faire Bay Area when DJ Qbert took to the stage to […]
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May 21, 2015
Drumroll Please for the Ribbon Winners from Maker Faire Bay Area!
This year’s Maker Faire Bay Area has come to a close, and while we are sad to see it go, it also gave us the opportunity to acknowledge the hard work of those Makers who brought the best, most fun, engaging, memorable, and educational exhibits. One of the biggest perks of […]
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DFRobot Encourages the Open Hardware Community
DFRobot is a Shanghai-based open source hardware facilitator whose mission is to encourage people to develop their own products and simply enable more rapid project creation. We caught up with Hector Saldana of DFRobot to find out more about the company’s offerings. Saldana notes one of their main focuses of […]
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New Project: Making a Simple Air Muscle
A father’s love inspired this A-bomb maker to invent a pneumatic actuator that’s used in robots today.
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