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Maker Faire Hannover Kicks Off

Maker Faire Hannover opened Saturday July 5th on a warm summer day. It was the second year for Maker Faire Hannover, located at the Congress Centrum, with two exhibition halls, several conference rooms, and outdoor activities and tents. Maker Faire Hannover is organized by Heise, a German technical publisher. Inside […]

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Maker Faire Silver Spring: Call For Makers

Maker Faire Silver Spring  is accepting applications to come share your skills and talents at their xxxx Maker Faire! The event which happens on Sunday September 14th is completely free for anyone to attend. If you want to have a booth though, you’ve got to register. Here are the important dates […]

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Prototyping a Tennis-Tracking Device in Shenzen: A Lesson

A must-read for any makers considering prototyping product ideas.

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Casting Custom Rims For Power Racing Series Cars

The tires and hubs on these cars simply were never meant for this kind of abuse.

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Virginia Tech Additive Manufacturing Grand Challenge

In the Spring 2014 semester, Virginia Tech hosted a university-wide extracurricular competition that challenged students to design and fabricate fully 3D printed air and ground vehicles.  The context of the competition guided by the Department of Defense’s shared vision for forward deployment of Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems to provide agile […]

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New Project: Backyard Climbing Wall

You can build a climbing wall indoors, or outside with this tutorial.

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Automatic Supercuts With Open Source Python Script

Artist and game designer Sam Lavigne has essentially created the cotton gin of supercut video production with an open source python script that automatically "searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds."

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Mayor Rob Ford Cardboard Rocking Chair

If you haven’t heard about the antics of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford as yet, most likely you have just now emerged from a hibernation that started before May 2013 or you have arrived back home to Earth after battling an alien invasion in the Kepler galaxy for the past year. […]

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New Project: Non-Contact Voltage Detector

This simple and simply ingenious maker tool can detect nearby electrical fields using a basic circuit built around three NPN transistors.

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Upcycled Smart Phone Gramophone Resonator

Looking for a good old-fashioned way to enjoy listening to music on your phone?

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