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Pick Up Your Tools and Get Started!

A call to action, to pick up your tools and get started making, and to be part of the next industrial revolution.

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New Project: Mini Fridge Soda Fountain

Build your own personal soda fountain that will refill your drink from across the room.

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F Is For Frequency at the Circuit Playground

The 5th installation of Adafruit’s adorable educational series has recently been published. “Fis for frequency”.  In this one, the ever curious Adabot starts out by asking “why do radio stations all have their own number?”. That sparks a lesson in frequency, delivered by a talking oscilloscope. These videos are always […]

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Cheaper Robotics Through 3D Printing

Michael Overstreet combines his two loves of 3D printing and robotics by printing his own humanoid robots. His goal is to make robotics affordable by printing as many of the parts as possible. Also, his robots are super fun to watch and play with.

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Artist creates tribute to the Lord of the Rings with stained glass lamp

Artist designs Lord of the Rings lamp using the age-old art form of stained glass.
The lamp has three scenes, with each side but the face representing the trilogy.

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Detecting Electrons with Weekend Projects

Sniff out electrons and sense static charge with the Non-Contact Voltage Detector. Built it into an enclosure on perfboard or quickly prototype the circuit on breadboard to experiment with this classic Weekend Project!

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3D Printed Foldable Head Mounted Display

The $80 Head Mounted Display was made with 3D printed frames and component housing modules with the optics bought from eBay.
They are fully adjustable and function with Android or Linux-based mobile devices.

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A Raspberry Pi powered underwater ROV at Maker Faire Trondheim

There was a second underwater ROV at Maker Faire Trondheim today. This one came with added water, and was powered by a Raspberry Pi.

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Man turns unused basement room into a log cabin replica

Designer turns drab unused room into a faux log cabin using $107 in materials.
The idea was to turn the room into a 50’s-era hunting cabin with décor to match.

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Rune wirelessly rocking Maker Faire Trondheim

Originally prototyped using an Arduino, Aalberg Audio's guitar delay pedal and Bluetooth LE remote control now looks like a product, not a prototype.

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