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January 11, 2015
Easy-to-Make Icicle Ornaments From a Plastic Bottle
Christmas has come and gone, and you’ve probably (hopefully) packed up the ornaments and stored them for next year. If, however, you’d like to “celebrate” the really cold weather we’ve been having in much of the United States, you could use these instructions to make icicle ornaments out of a […]
Published on January 11, 2015 08:01
January 10, 2015
A Custom Pedal-Powered Roadster
A '32 Ford roadster body (a small one), plus a modified a pedal chassis, makes this beautiful pedal car
Published on January 10, 2015 08:01
January 9, 2015
What’s New: ‘Getting Started with Arduino’ third edition
Three questions for Michael Shiloh, co-author with Massimo Banzi of the new edition of Getting Started with Arduino, available at O’Reilly, Adafruit, and Amazon. What new additions will readers find in this third edition of Getting Started with Arduino? Michael Shiloh: The third edition of Getting Started with Arduino adds two new […]
Published on January 09, 2015 17:01
Custom Sculpting Tools
Buying Christmas presents for all your friends is generally not the easiest thing to do. If, however, some of your friends are sculptors, and you have skill using a lathe like imgur user volpinprops, perhaps you could make them custom carving tools. The result, as seen in the gallery below, […]
Published on January 09, 2015 15:01
Print Your Own Circuit Boards and Reflow SMD Components with the Voltera V-One
Hardware startup Voltera aims to expedite the PCB-making process by putting it in on your home with its V-One consumer circuit board printer.
Published on January 09, 2015 12:51
Edidoom: Intel Edison Running Doom
Proving that the Intel Edison is really a full Pentium-class PC, Lutz has successfully ported Doom to the tiny board. For those who aren’t quite as old as I am and are unfamiliar with the classic title, Doom literally blew away gamers in 1993 with a combination of fast paced […]
Published on January 09, 2015 12:01
Meet the All Sparks: A Dallas-Based High School Robotics Team
We are Team 2848, The All Sparks, and over the next few months we will be giving you a peek into our robot build season. We are a high school robotics team from Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas, and we participate in a variety of programs through the […]
Published on January 09, 2015 10:01
Building a High Quality Slingshot with Rotating Bearings
Published on January 09, 2015 06:01
January 8, 2015
How To Turn a Bowl With a Table Saw
Lathes are an interesting piece of “maker gear,” but the typical garage would seem more likely to have a table saw than a lathe available. If for some reason you need to make a wooden bowl and only have a saw around, “izzy swan” now has a solution with his […]
Published on January 08, 2015 15:01
Atari Emulator Uses Raspberry Pi To Play 800 Games (and More)
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This ultimate retro gaming machine has hundreds of hours of old games, all on a Raspberry Pi emulator.
Published on January 08, 2015 12:01
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