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November 20, 2013

Turn it up to 11 With This License Plate Guitar Weekend Project

wp16_lpg_480sq Homemade guitars are very popular here at MAKE, and the License Plate Guitar joins a long list of DIY resonator instruments. Build your own version and strum to the beat of a homemade sound with Weekend Projects!

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Published on November 20, 2013 14:40

New Review: DAVID 3D Scanners

3-D Printers, Make Magazine Finally, consumer-grade scanners for your desktop!

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Published on November 20, 2013 13:51

New Review: B9 Creator

B9 Creator The B9 Creator produced the finest prints of any machine we tested.

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Published on November 20, 2013 11:49

Double Dutch: Two Days of Maker Faire in the Netherlands

Theo Jansen - Strandbeest The 2013 Maker Faire season is almost over, but not without a fair from our friends in Twente in the Netherlands. The fair is set for this weekend, Nov. 23-24.

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Published on November 20, 2013 11:11

Encouraging Girls to Hack and Make

joystick After working as a hardware engineer, attending grad school at Harvard, and working in science and engineering education for 10 years, I decided to go back to my community last year and start a program for girls.

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Published on November 20, 2013 10:57

The Faces of 3D Printing

Andrew_Rutter_TypeA From the pages of MAKE's Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014: Meet the makers behind the machines. These seven makers started their own 3D printer companies.

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Published on November 20, 2013 09:48

Roboexotica Celebrates its 15th Year

Roboexotica_2013 The number one destination for barbot enthusiasts is Roboexotica, a festival held every year in Vienna.

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Published on November 20, 2013 05:41

UAVs Demonstrated for South African National Parks Officials

All eyes are on Skate. We're in the operations command center for a briefing from SANParks officials. The scene is hectic. Mission area senior staff officer, Otch Otto, is directing resources and taking calls from the field. The news is sobering. Two poachers had been intercepted and shot by rangers. The rest is bad news. We're in a full moon period—the most active time for poaching—and a fresh rhino carcass had been discovered.

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Published on November 20, 2013 04:39

November 19, 2013

Kojima’s Life-Sized Single-Sheet Polar Bear

kojima _BYAKU_01 Japanese artist Nahoko Kojima has been fine-tuning her classic Japanese paper-cutting technique since 1987, when she was 6 years old, and it shows.

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Published on November 19, 2013 18:29

Coffee Maker: Auto-Fill Hack

Float valve... water when you need it.<br />Photo: Andrew Terranova Adding an auto-fill water line to your coffee maker is pretty easy, and saves time every day.

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Published on November 19, 2013 15:27

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