MAKE Magazine and Instructables.com's Blog, page 812
January 22, 2014
Handmade Tube Amps Workbench Tour
Take a tour of the Decware studio in Peoria, Illinois where tube amplifiers are hand-crafted by a crew of four.
Learning by Making is More Humane
We need to move schools to a making curriculum to make learning more humane and to reduce the dropout rate.
Bike Workhop Doll House Miniature
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I love miniatures. And I love bicycles. So you can imagine how enamored I was when I stumbled upon these photos of a bike workshop made in miniature. 
Put a Miniature Robot Arm on Your Desk
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Open-source Shenzhen startup uFactory (we mentioned their ball-balancing robot recently) has announced a new crowdfunding campaign for uArm, a robotic arm that's small enough to fit on your desk. 
QUACC: Quadrotor Ultimate Aerial Combat Competition
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Last month, Louisville's LVL1 hackerspace held an experimental drone combat event, QUACC: Quadrotor Ultimate Aerial Combat Competition. Participants using el-cheapo Syma X1 quadrotors to even the playing field, and hung ribbons from the chassis to give the contestants something to aim for.
Adult Eye Cells Survive the Printing Process
Researchers at the University of Cambridge were able to print cells from an adult animal’s central nervous system, forming layers of two types of cells taken from the retinas of rats.
January 21, 2014
Making with Math
The Joint Math Meeting, a 6,000+ person convention for mathematicians recently held at the Baltimore Convention Center. Here are the highlights. 
Streaming Data with Plotly
Plotly provides a free platform for makers to stream data to the cloud, where they can graph and analyze their data, discover other makers, and share and comment on these data streams. 
Maker Faire Oslo: Snowy Start for Makers in 2014
The first snowfall of the year in Oslo made for a great Maker Faire Oslo this past weekend. Here are the highlights of the event. 
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