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New Project: R/C Remote Drop Mechanism

Carry a toy (or pizza) high in the air and drop it from your R/C plane or copter!

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Carnegie Mellon Student Gives a Lift to Lessig’s Ideas

Lawrence Lessig is one of the most astute systems thinkers on the planet. Carnegie Mellon student Jordan Harrison decided to help bring Lessig's ideas alive visually, with this video.

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Knowable: Collaboration for Hardware Engineers

How can people come together to make a hardware product? Knowable.org is trying to answer that.

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Help a Maker Out — A Call for School Project Advice

Know anything about accelerometers and measuring velocity?

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Prank Call and Response: April Fools’ Projects from Readers

See our favorite April Fool's jokes, and send us your own.

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Makerland Conference: An Attendee’s Perspective

A maker tells all.

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Enter to Win a Thranduil Crown

To rule the woodland realm, you have to look the part.

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Hacking a Vintage Belt Sander

Swapping out the motor of an old belt sander to create a precision finish sander.

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New Project: Controlling a lock with an Arduino and Bluetooth LE

This project allows you to open a solenoid lock from a PhoneGap app using the Bluetooth Serial Plugin and the new Adafruit Bluetooth LE break-out board for the Nordic Semiconductor nRF8001 chip.

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New Project: Controlling a lock with an Arudino and Bluetooth LE

This project allows you to open a solenoid lock from a PhoneGap app using the Bluetooth Serial Plugin and the new Adafruit Bluetooth LE break-out board for the Nordic Semiconductor nRF8001 chip.

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