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Building a Basic Arcade Cabinet

Arcade Machines are becoming popular DIY projects for those that want to bring back the sights and sounds of their favorite games. It takes some skill to build your own but it can be done with little time and a little ingenuity.

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New Project: Dirty Dish Detector

A tidy sink is a happy sink. Combine a webcam with real-time computer vision software OpenCV to automate messages to your makerspace whenever dishes pile up.

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Coleman cooler robot opens and delivers cold beverages on-demand

The robot is one part cooler and multiple parts robot, controlled by an RC controller.
Bruce Strauss’ Colebot robotic cooler uses an Arduino as the brains for serving drinks and sits on a RC wheelchair platform for maneuverability.

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Making on Vacation with littleBits

My idea of an ideal vacation includes time with my family – exploring and learning about some new part of the world, with a little time to play with new Maker toys. Last year, I took our Fireball HD pinball electronics to the beach along with a bunch of new connectors. […]

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Life’s Lessons From the Maker’s Bill of Rights

The Maker’s Bill of Rights, a manifesto is largely about creating a resilient, open, and cooperative system—and that’s how life works, too.

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OpenExplorer Launches with New Adventures, OpenROV Giveaway

This week the adventure-tracking site OpenExplorer is going live to promote the explorer community, and giving away five OpenROVs to encourage citizen exploration.

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STEAM Art, Made By Makers

One weekend remains to see an exhibition of STEM + Arts = STEAM, at Arts Westchester in White Plains, NY. Even when this exhibition is over, look for more STEAM art in your town!

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Build a $700 Ceramic Spitting Delta 3D Printer

DIY ceramic 3D printer can be built on a budget with common and modified parts found on eBay and online retail stores.
Johnathan Keep’s Ceramic Delta 3D Printer in an Arduino SBC controls the show allowing users to create objects using clay.

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New Project: Remote Kill Switch

With this remote kill switch, Jason Poel Smith shows how to build a transmitter to cut off the juice to any device from a distance.

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Sketching in Hardware

Since 2006 I’ve organized* Sketching in Hardware, an annual summit on physical computing tools. Forty of the smartest designers, developers, researchers, artists and educators I know get together for three days to talk about tools that make it easier to develop hardware products, responsive environments and digital art. Hardware is […]

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