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Cubli: The Cube That Can Walk and Jump

Built by Mohanarajah Gajamohan at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, the Cubli is a 15 cm cube that can walk, jump and balance on one corner.

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Stepper Motor Makes Beats

Miguel Valenzuela created a series of computer controlled beats by placing a stepper motor on a guitar's pickup.

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What Are You Making in the New Year?

We asked some of our favorite makers what they planned to make in 2014. Here's what they said.

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How-To: 3 Most Popular DIY GoPro Projects

Check out the three most popular GoPro project tutorials according to DIYGoPro.com. Learn how to make these three rigs with step-by-step video tutorials, instructions, and part lists.

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Arduino Near-Field Communication

Don Coleman demonstrates using both Adafruit's and Seeed Studio's NFC shields to read Near-Field Communication (NFC) tags.

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My Maker Mantra for the New Year

My Maker Mantra for the New Year: Clean what you mess; Maintain what you have; Fix what you can;
Love what you make. Finish what you start.

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Planes and Trains and Polyhedra

Math Mondays is back from a travel-induced hiatus, but never fear, mathematical making continued unabated during the travels. In fact, on one plane ride, I just happened to have a bit of free time, and the materials to make the roundest 25-hedron possible (more on what that is, later). Unfortunately, […]

Robot-Assisted iPhone Unboxing

uFactory's uArm is equipped with a vacuum pump and solenoid valve, allowing it to lift even heavy things like a can of soda

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New Art Tool Review from Crabfu

It's the holiday break and that usually means that Crabfu/I-Wei Huang is monkeying around with some new art tools (and making cool review and demo videos). This year, I-Wei tries his hand on the new Wacom Creative Stylus for iPad Air.

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You Got an Arduino. Now What?

Don’t let your Arduino just gather dust in a drawer after the 25th. Learn from this video and you’ll be well on your way to letting it also gather data on how many times that drawer gets opened as you try to remember where you stored the New Year's decorations.

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