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January 14, 2014
Cover Your Ears! New Noise Making Products in the Shed
If you've done enough making, you'll know that being a do-it-yourselfer can create quite a ruckus at times, intentional or not! We in the Maker Shed love our group of rowdy new products, which range from melodious to totally discordant. 
Emulating Ecosystems: A Story About Beer
Businesses interested in meeting environmental sustainability goals can learn a lot from ecosystems. Functioning ecosystems are closed-loop systems, where one organism's waste is another organism's food or building material. An example of such industrial ecology is the ZERI beer brewing system that replaces the "make, take, and waste" linear resource stream with a circular system in which waste is treated as a resource rather than as garbage. This is biomimicry at the system scale.
January 13, 2014
Supernova Sonification: The Orchestra of Dying Stars
Dr. Alicia Soderberg collaborated with blind astrophysicist Wanda Diaz-Merced to produce audio "autopsies" that translate data collected from dying stars into orchestra-like sound files.
January 12, 2014
MAKE Editors’ Highlights and Picks from CES 2014
This week at CES 2014 we saw a lot of the typical fare: televisions, tablets, cameras, and phones. But we also saw robots, 3D printers and scanners, drones, and even some hardware development boards. Here's some of our favorites.
Sculptor Collaborates With Bees
Artist Aganetha Dyck embraces the collaborative spirit by creating these fascinating sculptures with the help of some honey bees.
January 11, 2014
Building a Braille Smartphone
I got an idea of building a smartphone for the blind that is completely Braille-based. With absolutely no hint of how to make it, I started working on it. 
January 7, 2014
MakerBot Has a Size for Everyone with Three New Printers
The MakerBot family just got three new siblings, and one of them promises gargantuan prints.
Fifth Annual Techno-Swap-Fest
The latest iteration of the Techno-Swap-Test will be held at the National Electronics Museum and the proceeds will benefit that organization. 
New Project: DIY TV & Media Center
Make a DIY television with the ability to display broadcast TV programs. It will also play movies with the help of a Raspberry Pi microcontroller serving as media center!
January 6, 2014
Getting Started with Arduino–The Maker Faire Edition
If you were dying to learn about Arduinos last September, the place to be would have been Maker Faire, at the Electronics Stage, where my colleague Andrew Terranova taught four crowds of visitors what those handy microcontrollers were all about.
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