MAKE Magazine and Instructables.com's Blog, page 848

New Review: OpenBeam Mini Kossel

The first deltabot in our tests printed well but it’s still a machine for the hands-on tinkerer.

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New Project: Full Body Scanning with the Scan-O-Tron 3000

Use this rig with a Kinect sensor to make full-body scans of your guests for 3D printing.

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Let’s Make Some Noise

Ray Wilson has been interested in analog synthesizers since the first time he heard "Switched On Bach" back in 1968. After working at U.S. Steel, Intec Systems, Siemens Pacesetter, and Telectronics, he now runs his popular web site Music From Outer Space (MFOS) full-time. Most of his electronics learning has been hard-won and experiential, with hundreds of hours devoted to reading, breadboarding, experimenting, and appreciating analog synthesis.

Ray presents a free, one-hour webcast on the topic, 'Using TL07X Op Amps in Analog Synthesizers,' on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 10am PT.

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You Want to go to Santiago

Best Maker Faire promo video ever?! Watch and get planning to hop on down to Chile's second ever Maker Faire on November 23 & 24.

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Make Your own Cloud With Raspberry Pi and arkOS

Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Cook is on a mission to help you create your own small piece of cloud on the internet, freeing you from other providers for services like file storage and sharing, web hosting, e-mail, calendars, music, and photos. His project, ArkOS, is built to run on the Raspberry Pi, which means there's only a small investment to get a server up and running in your home. It's a Linux distribution that includes a web-based interface to serve and manage self-hosted cloud services.

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Deploy Weekend Projects to Send Sensor-Activated SMS Alerts

Cellular Sensor Sentinel is a fun and accessible way to explore basic sensors while simultaneously learning about core cellular protocols GSM & GPRS.

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Earthship Green Homes

Earthship Biotecture designs green homes that incorporate systems for off-grid electricity production, water use and treatment, heating and cooling and even food production.

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Macadamia Grocery Geometry Challenge

Here's the challenge: see if you can find a way to have five (or more?) cylinders of an aspect ratio at least close to 9.5 : 7 all touch each other simultaneously, and send a picture of the configuration to mondays@momath.org -- the first/best solutions will be posted in a future installment.

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New Project: $5 Smartphone Projector

You can show off your mobile photos and your phone hack savvy by turning your smartphone into an inexpensive projector.

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New Project: Hack “My Keepon” With an Arduino Brain

It’s alive! Hack your My Keepon toy into a low-cost animatronic puppet with many of the same functions as Keepon Pro. We'll show you how to connect an Arduino to My Keepon’s electronics, so you can control it using just about any sensors, devices, and interfaces you can imagine, wired or wireless.

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