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January 6, 2014
New Project: Bamboo Hors d’Oeuvre Tray
A few clever cuts and you’ll be serving in style! Here’s an hors d’oeuvre tray you can make with only bamboo and a little glue. Somewhere between grass and wood on God’s celestial materials list, bamboo is exceptional stuff. Lightweight, strong, elastic, and durable, it’s one of mankind’s earliest building materials. It works, bonds, and finishes well. This tray is perfect for serving party snacks — and it also makes an interesting wall decoration, hung either side out. 
Skill Builder: Arduino 101
Ever heard of Arduino? This Primer will help you get started with Arduino and a little bit of coding.
Vegas Videographers: We Want to Hear From You
Like gadgets and consumer electronics? Good with a video camera? We want to hear from you. As part of our coverage of 2014 International CES, we're looking for someone on the ground in Las Vegas who can produce quick videos of exhibits and stand-up commentary and interviews with MAKE editors.
Fractal Holiday
Happen to have any spheres with mirrored surfaces lying around? If so, you can make your own sphere inversion fractals, as today's gallery of pictures shows. Here's the basic idea: take three different-colored reflecting balls and arrange them so that each just kisses both of the other two.
Here Come the Cubes!
3D Systems has been busy. In early December they announced their acquisition of Village Plastics Co., a leading manufacturer of filament-based ABS, PLA and HIPS and last week they acquired Gentle Giant Studios, with a vast library of digital content. Today, they announced their latest Cube 3 and CubePro desktop 3D printers and […]
January 4, 2014
Get Ready for MAKE’s Take on CES
This week we're eager to share our take on 2014 International CES, the enormous exhibition showcasing the latest in consumer technology. With MAKE editors posting dispatches from the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center, we'll be giving you MAKE's take on all the action at CES. We'll also have a video crew so that we can bring you demos and interviews from straight from our sources.
MAKE at CES: Follow our Live Blogging Here
Bookmark this post for real time, up-to-the-minute commentary and news from CES. Led by MAKE Executive Editor Mike Senese, we'll be live blogging the consumer electronics show. If you want to follow the action from near or far, this feed of news and view is the place to watch. See you in Vegas!
How to Make a Mini Maker Space for Mini Makers
Got a pint-sized Maker just bursting with new projects for the New Year? Christian Tsu-Raun at Scholastic Parents has some great ideas for creating the perfect at-home Maker Space for kids.
January 3, 2014
DIY Hacks & How To’s: Adjustable Power Outlet
There are a lot of electrical devices that only have two settings: ON and OFF. For a many of these, it would be helpful if you could adjust the output with an external circuit. In this project, I show you how to make an adjustable power outlet. This circuit acts as an external dimmer and can be used to adjust the power on a variety of appliances such as Lamps, heaters, soldering irons, and hot glue guns.
Afinia Responds to Stratasys: Your Patents Are Invalid and Your Threats are Anti-Competitive
Afinia challenges the validity of all four of the patents that Stratasys accuses them of infringing.
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