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October 20, 2014
How To Draw Dancing Mushrooms With An Oscilloscope
Austrian musician Jerobeam Fenderson performs animations using oscilloscopes, and in this video demonstrates how to draw a mushroom on screen. Or a couple of mushrooms. Or a field of mushrooms!
Halloween Pirate Shipwreck Yard Display
This incredible Halloween yard display featuring a full-sized pirate ghost ship wreck with a house in Lorain, Ohio, certainly makes my timbers shiver...with admiration.
October 19, 2014
Makers Against Ebola – Zipper Extenders
Exhausted from heat inside a protective suit and burdened with layers of gloves, to disrobe you need to grasp and pull a tiny zipper tab. Who needs this challenge!? Not only would this be frustrating but it could be dangerous. Lack of dexterity and coordination can cause exposure to infection. One solution proposed at Fighting […]
Incredible Insects On The Form 1+ 3D Printer
Klaus Leitl is an Austrian artist who makes insects. Incredibly lifelike insects such as the Mayfly shown above. He posted some examples on the Formlabs forums, and they quickly took notice. They’ve posted an interview with him about how 3D printing is changing his craft. The interview and accompanying pictures […]
October 18, 2014
Makers Against Ebola – Training Videos
Between the caregiver and the Ebola virus is protective clothing. Dressing and undressing correctly are essential for safety. These training videos instruct workers on how to do both correctly. Worn right it protects; worn wrong it infects. Let’s remember the context. Infection comes from contacting the virus and transferring it to your system. Being careless or not […]
Cool Crowdfunding, October 18, 2014
This week's collection of cool crowdfunding projects includes books, tools and much more!
October 17, 2014
Make it Last
The Make It Last Build Series, Sponsored by Microchip and Energizer Welcome to Make It Last, a project build series and contest, sponsored by Microchip and Energizer. Over the course of this contest, we’re going to cover a series of three project builds, demonstrating some of the finer points of […]
Robotic Sea Creatures that Respond to Invisible Waves
Designed to engage and empower the maker community, Intel’s “Inside the Blue” project encourages makers to create robotic creatures using their Galileo board. These creatures are meant respond to invisible waves all around us. To help makers get inspired, they recruited a beta teams to make a few of these […]
WinkDex? Build Your Own Crypto Currency Tracker!
There's a new Bitcoin index in town. Our Crypto Currency Tracker could easily be modified to work with this new tracker, and perform additional functions such as physical notifications or text alerts.
Makers Against Ebola – Personal Protection Equipment
Since contracting Ebola can only happen when people come in contact with infected fluids, caregivers need to be protected. Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) are actually the solution but current PPE come with drawbacks. Improving PPE is a major goal of Fighting Ebola and it’s one area where makers can have an impact. What follows is an introduction to […]
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