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This Miniature Pinball Table Could Fit In Your Pocket

Sprite's miniature pinball machine isn't using a raspberry pi, just an ESP32 and tons of elbow grease

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Smell What’s Happening in Virtual Reality With This DIY Device

Make virtual reality more realistic with an automated system of smells!

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This Gorgeous LED Pendant Is A Simple and Elegant Wearable Circuit

When making wearable LED art, it can be easy to get overwhelmed with possibilities. This beautiful pendant shows how the circuit can be simple if the design is beautiful. Charlyn Gonda shared this piece on her blog and I thought it was stunning. Even better than just showing off the beautiful result, she also shared […]

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3D Printing a 1 Meter Tall Bust To Honor Sanjay Mortimer

You can join and help honor Sanjay by 3D printing part of this huge sculpture

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EspinalLab ATMegaZero 32U4

What do you get when you cross an Arduino with a Raspberry Pi Zero? That is a strange question, but stranger still is that we now know the answer, and can hold it in our hands! EspinalLab’s ATMegaZero 32U4 takes the ATmega32u4 microcontroller found in Arduino’s Leonardo board and mixes things up by including the […]

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Review: Beagleprint Camera and Control System For 3D Printers

A plug-and-play system to add WiFi and timelapse features to your 3d printer

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Cool crowdfunding: Moog Controller, Snap Together Ships, and Electronics Kits

We receive so many pitches for crowdfunding projects. They pour into our inbox daily. Since crowdfunding is a bit of a gamble, it is always kind of hard to determine just how to write about these projects, considering that many of them may not ever deliver. Cool Crowdfunding is our way of sharing some of […]

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Adafruit MagTag

The Adafruit MagTag might just contain everything that you ever wanted in an e-Ink refrigerator magnet. First, the display itself is a comfortable 2.9″ presenting a 298x128x4 grayscale image. The 4-level grayscale is an excellent design choice, allowing improved image rendering while keeping display updates at about one second (Tri-color black, white, red displays often […]

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This Tiny DIY Plotter Makes Labels On Masking Tape

Masking tape labels are a staple in any workshop. You scribble what’s in a box on the tape and slap it in place. We’ve all done it. However, Molten Cheese Bear is taking that concept in an interesting direction. As you can see, they’ve made a tiny plotter that writes directly onto the masking tape, […]

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Humanmade SF

A Conversation with Ryan Spurlock A refugee from TechShop in SF, Ryan Spurlock took what he learned there and applied it to a new makerspace called Humanmade, located in the design district of San Francisco. Two things stand out about this makerspace. One is how it was funded: a local developer whom the City required […]

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