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March 13, 2015
Get Lucky Making These Cinnamon Fortune Cookies
St. Patrick’s Day may be coming up, but you won’t need shamrocks for good luck this year when you can simply write your own fortune with these homemade cinnamon sugar fortune cookies from A Cozy Kitchen. The real trick to this recipe is being prepared to fold the cookies while […]
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March 12, 2015
Open-Source Chemistry: Autodesk Shares Formula for 3DP Resin
Last year when Autodesk announced their new Spark platform, they promised to make it open and accessible to users. This week, they made a huge step forward with that promise by releasing the formula for the resin that they use in their Ember SLA printer. While most manufacturers keep their […]
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Futuristic Hands-Free Game Control with the DodecaLEDron
This unique controller was created by Indie developer Alan Zucconi. It allows players to control a virtual spaceship by only hovering their hands over a series of sensors. It was discovered on the floor in the “Alternative Input” exhibit at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 in San Francisco. Gamers […]
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Weed-Pulling Robot is Like a Roomba for Your Yard
Amaranthus palmeri, commonly known as pigweed, has long threatened cotton and soybean crops in the southern United States. More recently, it’s begun to develop a resistance to glyphosate, a common agricultural herbicide—posing a problem so grave that farmers in Texas lobbied the EPA last year to let them deploy the severe […]
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DiResta: Push Sticks
Many people ask me about the branded push stick I use in my videos.
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Adorable Felt Apple Watch Runs Forever, Doesn’t Cost $10,000
New technology is certainly fashionable, so if you’re more interested in form than function when it comes to wearable tech, then why not take a page out of Hiné Mizushima’s book and make yourself a super low-tech Apple Watch? Using just a little felt fabric, some miscellaneous buttons, and a […]
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Join The Maker Faire Street Team, Earn 2 Tickets to MFBA!
This year marks 10 years of the Bay Area Maker Faire. It wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our community spreading the excitement. For our 10th year anniversary, we’re hoping to be bigger than ever before and again, we need your help! The Maker Faire Street Team passes […]
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Glitch in the Matrix? Art Carpets make You Look Twice
A glitch, as Wikipedia currently defines it, is “a short-lived fault in a system.” In electronics, this can cause interesting patterns. It can also cause extreme frustration if your livelihood (or high score) depends on the computer that is “glitching out.” Fortunately, carpets that have this appearance are the point […]
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3D-Print This Kickass, Snap-Together R/C Race Car
As 3D printers get better, and users get more experience designing with 3D printing in mind, we are seeing more models released that use fewer non-printed parts to accomplish the end goal. Taylor Alexander wanted a demo platform for his new Arduino compatible wireless system, Flutter. He decided to build […]
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The Surprising Maker Backstory of Intel’s Tiny Edison Computer
From an engineer's kitchen table to the bright lights of the CES main stage in record time.
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