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July 31, 2014
New Project: Facebook Flagger—Notifications over Bluetooth LE using the Light Blue Bean
Building hardware is exciting because you get to interact with the "real world". In this project you will use the LightBlue Bean to receive notifications from Facebook and Twitter
July 30, 2014
Mechanical pencil gets a makeover thanks to 3D printing
What’s in a pencil, they all work alike right? Wrong, especially when it comes to the mechanical variety. Then wood pencils start to look like an archeological find. Avid maker ‘Angry Monk’ took on the challenge of redesigning the mechanical pencil using a Stratasys Objet Eden 500V 3D printer. […]
Nashville Mini Maker Faire is Looking for Makers
The Nashville Mini Maker Faire is coming up on September 13 and they want you to be there!
“Eye of the Tiger” Played on a Hacked Dot Matrix Printer
Just like Rocky, this dot matrix printer is certainly is a survivor as it belts out a stirring rendition of "Eye of the Tiger."
Ode to the Gameboy: 10 Projects Based on the Iconic Portable Nintendo
When the Nintendo Gameboy was first released in 1989, it was a tremendous commercial success. Gameboy developed a following among gamers that is in many ways still alive to this day. Here are 10 awesome projects inspired by the venerable Gameboy. Some merge the latest maker electronics with late-80s Gameboy […]
ASTROGUN Lets Players Shoot Incoming Asteroids In An AR environment
Imagine standing inside the game Asteroids. That is what the Astrogun does, with a cool Augmented Reality style display. 
A Novel Compiled From Crowd Sourced Tweets About Writing A Novel
If you've been tweeting about that novel you've been working on for the last few years, then you may have finally succeeded in getting at least some of your work published in a new book by Cory Arcangel called Working On My Novel.
ODROID-W: The First Raspberry Pi Compatible Development Board
In a surprising move yesterday Hardkernel annoucned a Raspberry Pi compatible board called he ODROID-W. Tested against the latest NOOBS and Raspbian images the board is software compatible with the original Raspberry Pi.
Stunning Layered Wax Type Sculpture
Collaborative duo Keetra Dean Dixon and JK Keller like to play with their materials and "misuse" them in unexpected ways. 
July 29, 2014
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