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How To: Play Music Using Floppy Drives

We’ve seen these videos pop up all over the internet over the past few years. We’ve even shared a few on Make’s blog. The most prolific poster of these videos showing floppy drives playing music is youtube user MrSolidSnake745. He’s got this down to an exact process and seems to […]

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Makerspace Intro: HexLab Makerspace

While attending UCSB in 2001, Mike Hexter founded Hexcorp, a product design and consulting firm with a reputation for passion and for cutting edge technology. Over the years, the company has developed a wide array of specialized skills such as rapid prototyping, research and development, product design, manufacturing and business […]

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New Project: How to Punch Through Brick

Have you ever wanted to be able to punch through a brick wall? Well you probably can. All you need is a pair of heavy-duty gauntlets to add some weight and focus all the force to a narrow point. It is like wearing a sledge hammer on each arm. This […]

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The Art of Displaying “Exploded” Skulls

Artist Ryan Matthew Cohn has resurrected the 18th century art of displaying "exploded" human skulls pioneered by French Anatomist Claude Beauchene.

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DiResta: Old-School Doghouse

I was inspired to make a doghouse, but I needed a spin on the idea.

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Making a Jumanji Board by Hand

Cue the tribal drumming for this incredible replica of the Jumanji game board used in the 1995 movie starring Robin Williams.

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3D Printed Bracelet Illuminates On The Beat

Maker Michael Barretta created an LED bracelet that is responsive to sound by combining the technology of light organs and Adafruit’s GEMMA microcontroller. The result is groovy.

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The Amazing EMF Conference Badge

Conference badges can be boring, some can be cool and make nice souvenirs, then there are those that might actually be a reason to go to a conference or event in itself. The TiLDA MKe badge from the upcoming EMF 2014 event looks like it will be one of the […]

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Making videogame weaponry real: Evolve’s Lazarus Device

In case you didn’t see it last week, Make: magazine announced we are working with 2K to build real-world versions of some sci-fi guns for their upcoming game, “Evolve”. Prop builder extraordinaire, Shawn Thorsson, walks us through the first weapon he’s creating, The Medic’s “Lazarus Device”: The Medic Here is the […]

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The Particle Light Fixture

If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’re a fan of unique blinking lights. Alex Posada’s piece, “The Particle,” exemplifies this quite nicely, and adds the ability to spin at 1500 RPM. Resembling the usual representation of an atom, the name seems quite appropriate. It would also make quite an […]

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