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2013 in Review: Our Favorite New Tools

These products caught our attention for being innovative, useful, or just downright cool.

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Make Your Own Mindstorms Cube Solver

David Gilday's MindCub3r robot is made from a single Lego Mindstorms EV3 set and solves mixed-up Rubik's Cubes.

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Citizen Science and Exploration: Who Makes the Rules?

The tools for citizen science and exploration are getting good. As they continue to empower amateurs, who makes the rules on what can be done?

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Presenting Twin Cities Maker with a $10K Check for their Hackmobile

And the winner is: the Hackmobile, the brainchild of four makers based at Minneapolis’s Hack Factory! The Hackmobile’s designers take home first-place honors and a $10,000 check in the Ultimate Maker Vehicle Challenge, an engineering design contest that challenged makers to design their Ultimate Maker Vehicle out of a 2014 […]

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12 Maker Pro Trends That Expanded the Maker Movement in 2013

Out on the Maker Pro frontier — where making meets business — 2013 was an eventful year. A dozen trends powered by entrepreneurs, investors, and startups pushed the boundaries of the maker movement into new territories. Here’s a look at them, in no particular order. Filed under: General

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Announcing the Winners of the Ultimate Maker Vehicle Challenge

Congratulations to all the makers who competed in the first Ultimate Maker Vehicle Challenge. From 10 awesome entries, here are the winners!

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Robot Year in Review: 2013

2013 was a good year for robotics. Let's review some of my favorite stories, maker, products and projects.

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Seasons Greetings From MAKE

MAKE's ode the year that was and a look ahead to the one to come.

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It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like 3DPmas: Show Us Your Christmas Morning Prints

Christmas Comes Early For The MAKE 3DP Team For the past two years our Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing has used “Christmas Morning” print tests to gauge how well a desktop machine prints right out of the box. As our “How We Tested” article states: In order to make […]

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Making Connections With Conductive Tape: A Primer

Conductive tape should be sold right alongside duct tape in craft stores. It is great stuff. How amazing that it acts like a wire and carries electricity between a battery and components like LEDs, buzzers, and motors. And you can take it anywhere. I mean anywhere. Planes, trains, automobiles, Maker Faires, libraries, other people's living rooms. Can't say that about a soldering iron.

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