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February 25, 2015
Cellular Connectivity Comes to Microcontrollers With The Spark Electron
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Meet Electron from Spark, the new board that puts GSM cellular connectivity directly on the microcontroller. With its onboard cellular antenna, this diminutive board will offer a huge range of deployment options and alleviate the hassle of using a custom cellular breakout board with your micro controller projects. They’re offering two […]
How Your Failed Project Made You a Better Maker
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My DIY wearable gadget never sold — but it led to my first article, a kit company, and a career in electronics and science. Here's how a failure became a springboard to success.
4-Headed Printer Makes Multiple Parts Simultaneously
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3D printers are great for prototyping or for when you need one or two copies of a part, but the time it takes to print each one of those parts makes scaling difficult. But what if you could print two, three, or four parts in the same amount of time […]
February 24, 2015
Egyptian Street Artist Bottles Mesmerizing Sand Creations
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You can usually find unusual and interesting things from city street vendors that sell everything from delicious foods and incredible works of art. Every country around the globe has their own unique street hawkers, including Egypt, which has vendors that create 3D works of art inside bottles using colored […]
Beautiful Weeds: Preserve a Dandelion in Resin
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After a successful Kickstarter Campaign, the Dandelion Collective has been producing these gorgeous paper weights made from dried out dandelions and clear resin. Each weed is carefully hand selected, dried, and preserved into a perfectly polished sphere of cast polyester resin, with a small flat base so it doesn’t roll […]
Interactive 10-Foot Musical Polyhedron Is Mathmagical
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The supersized polyhedron is at the center of a 50-foot-wide pentagonal structure with four arches shaped like lotus petals
How To: Build A Rustic Wooden Magnetic Utensil Holder
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In a small apartment, counter space is at a premium. Knife blocks are huge and often unsightly, so I resolved to make an attractive, convenient solution. Several people commented that they would pay for such a product, so I opened Pretty River Woodworking on Etsy. As a second personal project, […]
Our 3 Favorite Robots from the New York Toy Fair
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Until we enter the age of companion droids, robots for the mass market will continue to be categorized as either appliances or toys. Which makes Toy Fair New York a great place to check out the new consumer robots coming out every year. Happily, many of these robots come in […]
BattleBots Is Back — But Fighting Robots Never Went Away
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BattleBots will be returning to television this summer, to the delight of all who have sorely missed the show for the past 12 years. The six-episode reboot moves to ABC to get us back into the world of fighting robot mayhem. BattleBots originally aired from 2000-2005 on Comedy Central, bringing fame to a number of […]
100 Projects in 100 Days You Can Build with the PSoC 4 BLE
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#PSoCMaker news: Cypress have begun publishing 100 Projects in 100 Days using the PSoC 4 BLE dev kit!
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