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November 18, 2013
Next-Level Ballpoint Pen Art
French artist Jonathan Bréchignac elevates the humble Bic ballpoint pen to a next-level art medium with his incredibly detailed and meticulously drawn series titled The Carpets. 
Using Scooters and Go-Karts to Disrupt Engineering Education
Charles Guan has an "undying desire to create that which should not be created", like his treaded skateboard (called LandBearShark). For the last two years, he has been sharing his fabrication knowledge with MIT engineering students as an instructor in a disruptive course that he created, which requires that they build and race a custom electric vehicle. 
3D Printed Parts That Were “Just What I Needed”
From the pages of MAKE's Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014: 3D prints to the rescue!
November 17, 2013
New Project: Two-Hour Table
Make a strong, elegant table in just one evening and learn a new woodworking trick while you're at it: cutting tapers with a simple taper jig for your table saw.
November 16, 2013
Miami Mini Maker Faire 2013
Miami's first mini maker faire welcomed over 1,600 attendees yesterday, featuring a wide ranging array of South Florida makers in Miami's Wynwood district. As one of the organizers of Orlando Mini Maker Faire, we were excited to see our friends from South Florida producing a mini maker fair of their own, and they did not disappoint! 
Two Million Raspberry Pis in the Wild
Here’s some breaking news from the Manchester Raspberry Jam: Eben Upton, head of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, just revealed that as of the end of October, there are now two million Raspberry Pis out in the wild. In early 2013, the Raspberry Pi foundation sold its millionth unit through its […]
Use a Model Train Transformer to Cut Foam
MAKE author Bob Knetzger shows how to built a foam-cutting rig with a length of nichrome wire and a model train transformer.
3D Scanning Meets the Museum at the Smithsonian
This week at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. there was a happy merging of hundreds of people in the 3D scanning world and museum world. We gathered to see presentations from so many experts in these fields, including folks from Autodesk, 3D Systems, the Smithsonian and many other museums. We learned about the Wright Flyer, ancient weapons, whale and dolphin fossils, a CT scan of an Embreea orchid and Eulaema bee, and a killer whale hat.
November 15, 2013
Weekend Projects HOA – Optical Tremolo Box LIVE NOW!
Join us later today for our sixth installment of Weekend Projects Hangouts On Air. We’ll be chatting with the author of Make: Electronics, Charles Platt, who in MAKE Volume 15 theorized a hypothetical tremolo wheel. Years later MAKE Technical Editor Sean Ragan would build this project, giving us the Optical […]
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