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March 18, 2015
Announcing MakerCon 2015 and the Launch Pad Contest
MakerCon 2015 is Make:’s popular conference on the business of Making and the impact of the Maker Movement. Presented by Intel, the event will take place May 12-13, at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, and will look at Makers who are going pro by bringing their projects, products, and […]
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Join Us At Maker Media Lab For Our Drone Meetup, Win A Quadcopter!
Make: magazine Volume 44 hit the newsstands on March 24 and this issue is all about DRONES! To celebrate, Make: will host a meetup at the Maker Media Lab at the Palace of Fine Arts. These days drones are buzzing, not only in the skies, but throughout the Maker community! Makers’ love […]
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Free Ticket To Ride: Illegal Metro Card Duplicator
If you live in an area where the metro or subway use tickets with magnetic strips, you may have already had this idea. Can these be copied? Well, this proof of concept says yes. The device called the ticketizer literally makes copies of metro tickets. Utilizing an audio amp, […]
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Hacked Teddy Bear Warms Your Heart and Your Hugs
Vladimir wrote in to share an interesting project he just completed. He is using the heating element from a heated jacket to heat a stuffed bear. The result is a cuddly warm stuffed animal. It looks like an ordinary silk fabric, very thin and soft. You do not feel […]
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Video: Watch How Much Work Goes into This Beautiful Wooden Bowl
Frank Howarth, who has a shop that would put most woodworkers to shame, made the beautiful bowl seen in the picture above as a wedding present. Naturally, a bowl like this takes a lot of work to make (seriously, a lot), as seen in the video below. Frank started out […]
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Molecule Printing Technology Could Make Drug Printing a Reality
Dr. Martin D. Burke and a team of chemists at the University of Illinois may have brought us one giant step closer to 3D printing on the molecular level. Small molecules are the low molecular weight organic compounds that make up such things as pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, and electronic components […]
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Extreme Cardboarding: Cardboard Treadmill Workout
Now that spring is upon us and thoughts of not so distant summer weather fill our imaginations, many of us will be looking to get into optimum shape after months of lethargy during the winter. After pushing the envelope on the limits cardboard can be sculpted and re-purposed with the […]
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March 17, 2015
Will This New Technology Make 3D Printers 25 Times Faster?
The technologies that we often talk about for 3D printing (FDM, SLA, SLS), have been around for a while and it’s rare that we see ground breaking processes that really shake things up. This week, a new company in the market Carbon 3D, has released a new process they refer […]
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Make a $10 Collapsible Leather Coin and Key Tray
Want a little storage space that you can pack up and take with you? Why not make yourself a handsome leather catch-all like the ones that Laura Kaesshaefer put together for Food52, which are not just practical, they’re also cheap to make! I’ve been noticing lately that leather catch-alls are […]
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Rubber Band Power: 7 Stretchy DIY Toys
The humble rubber band opens up a whole range of possibilities for fun DIY projects. These rubber band toys make great gifts, particularly for geeky kids or partners who appreciate the homemade touch. Rubber Band Car Launcher You can use the explosive energy stored in a stretched rubber band […]
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