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Maker Faire Taipei Returns On Christmas Day

Maker Faire Taipei returns for a Christmas special! This December 24th & 25th, Taiwanese makers come to the capital to share their projects, learn new techniques, and get inspired by the always leading-edge designs and ideas that pop up at this faire, its 9th!

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Watch The Ever So Amusing Secret Santa of Makers On Youtube

For the past few years the holiday season has been made thoroughly amusing by a series of collaborations put on by the youtube channel Kids Invent Stuff. They reach out to these channels and organize a secret santa exchange where you have to make the gift you’re sending to another maker on youtube. This year, […]

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Watch The Ever Amusing Secret Santa of Makers On Youtube

For the past few years the holiday season has been made thoroughly amusing by a series of collaborations put on by the youtube channel Kids Invent Stuff. They reach out to these channels and organize a secret santa exchange where you have to make the gift you’re sending to another maker on youtube. This year, […]

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Recreate The Saturn V Rocket in CAD

On December 21st, 1968, exactly 55 years ago today, NASA sent humans outside of low earth orbit for the first time, captivating the world and ushering in a new era of space travel. An estimated 400,000 engineers, scientists, and manufacturers worldwide are accredited for helping build the rocket.  To commemorate this milestone, we will model […]

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Smart Swaps For Hard To Find Boards

We can’t hardly wait for the chip shortage to be over and dev boards to be abundant again, but instead of waiting for somebody to fix the supply chain, we’ve gathered a list of near substitutes and potential replacements for your next project. Unsatisfied with back-orders for your favorite Raspberry Pi or Arduino? Use the […]

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3D Printing For Accessibility At Microsoft

Microsoft recently launched a whole suite of accessible input devices. They’ve really been leading the industry in designing devices specifically for greater accessibility for those that might have limb differences or movement restrictions. This set, specifically is interesting because MS is dabbling in letting users customize their stuff using 3D Printing! You can purchase the […]

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AVR64DD32 Curiosity Nano

The AVR64DD32 Curiosity Nano is an evaluation board from Microchip that showcases a relatively new chip not currently found on any other microcontroller development board. Although we often think of evaluation boards as clunky affairs with limited capabilities, Microchip has made their evaluation boards maker-friendly. The board features an on-board programmer and debugger that provides […]

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A Closer Look at the Fully Animatronic Version of the Hand From Netflix’s Wednesday

In Netflix’s revival of the Addams Family for Netflix, they may focus mainly on Wednesday but the rest of the crew doesn’t get completely ignored. One specific family member, a severed hand called “Thing” gets their fair share of screen time. For the show, the character is typically just someone’s hand and some movie magic. […]

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MacGyver Challenge: S.O.S.!

Think you could MacGyver your way out of a dangerous situation?  Welcome to Make:’s MacGyver Challenge — solve this emergency scenario in a creative way and your solution could be featured in the next issue of Make: magazine! Written by MacGyver TV creator Lee David Zlotoff and his partner in predicaments, Rhett Allain, here’s the […]

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A Perfect Circle: An LED “supergroup” Collaborates on the Lux Lavalier

Mad Season, Cream, Prophets of Rage, the Traveling Wilburys — what do they have in common? Perhaps it’s that you’ve never heard of them, but they are also all supergroups — successful artists teaming up to create something new and exciting. In the world of LEDs, instead of Layne Staley, Tom Morello, and Tom Petty, […]

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