Friday 30 March 2018

Tips of the Week: Hobby Knife Hacks, Paint Handle Push Sticks, Brazing 101, and Say My Name!

Another week of wonderful tips, tricks, and tool hacks.

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Building a Puppet With The Broken Nerd

Witness the birth of this wonderful puppet

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Get Ready for Easter with these 10 Unique Egg Designs

With the holiday right around the corner, it's time to start picking out the perfect Easter egg designs. What will you choose this year?

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Learn About Accelerometers and Make Your Own Digital Level

Make your own digital "spirit level" with a few inexpensive electronic components and a 3D enclosure.

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Thursday 29 March 2018

Carving a Massive Wooden Baseball Chair with Paul Jackman

Paul Jackman recently published a fantastic video on how he made a chair that looks like a giant baseball that's been sawn in two.

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Maker Spotlight: Hannah Cass of Sew 8-Bit

Meet Hannah Cass, owner of Sew 8-Bit and a full-time mom of one. She sews together wonderful pieces of art live on Twitch.

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Maker Faire Cairo Brings History, Youth, and Battling Bots

The spirit of the event, and of the entire city, was highly infectious and sets a great example of what a wonderful presence makers have on an international stage.

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Wednesday 28 March 2018

Building a Loc-Line Close-Up Work Light with Adam Savage

Watch as Adam puts together an adjustable workbench light for precision work using industrial hosing and an LED video light.

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Easily Mount Your Jewelry on a Wall with These Simple Hangers

Jeffrey Burke carved and built a jewelry hanger that can be easily mounted to a wall before posting his project on Maker Share.

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Motorizing a Simple Camera Slider

Improving your shots with a motorized camera slider doesn't have to be complicated! Follow Jeremy Cook's lead and cobble something custom together.

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Tuesday 27 March 2018

How to Make Your Own Emission Control Leak Detector

Make a cheap smoke machine for detecting leaks in your emission control system.

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Jam Anywhere with this Foldable Cardboard Synth Case

Check out this portable cardboard case that Rzinurov built for their synth system. It even re-purposes some old speakers so that you can unfold and jam instantly.

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Get Familiar with the 555 Timer

Adafruit just published a great guide on getting to know the 555 timer to help people fully understand how a 555 timer works.

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Monday 26 March 2018

Maker Pro News: Startups Are The Future of 3D Printing

Are startups truly the future of 3D printing? We connect with a few maker pros to find out.

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Friday 23 March 2018

Tips of the Week: Safety Glass Scratch Resistors, Friction-Fitting Parts, Syrup Hacking, and the Joys of Making

Another week, another collection of indispensable tips from top makers.

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BforArtists Takes the Pain Out of Blender’s Interface

Blender, the extremely powerful, open source, and absolutely free tool has a user interface that is cluttered, counter intuitive, and just plain horrid. Let's fix that.

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Thursday 22 March 2018

Check Out Makers Rock, a 90s Album Art Maker Jam

34 makers interpret classic album art from the 1990s.

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Behold the Intricate Beauty of the Rose Engine

Last year, Caleb Kraft visited Maker Faire Paris and had a wonderful time. One of the exhibits that really caught his eye was the rose engine display.

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Wednesday 21 March 2018

Carve Your Own Vintage Railway Signs

In one of his newest Maker Share projects, Dessie Gamble details how he carved vintage railway signs for museum exhibits.

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This Drone Rocket Hybrid Can Land Vertically

Instead of deploying a parachute, this quadcopter drone can slowly hover back down and land directly on the launchpad again.

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Tuesday 20 March 2018

This Delightful Magpie Puppet is Carved from Wood

Claire Brooks is already proving adept at the craft of making puppets. This is only her second project, but the detail is extraordinary.

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Monday 19 March 2018

4 Ways to Control Electronic Relays

There are plenty of ways to use relays, and each method can achieve several different results. Check out this step by step guide to figure out what you need.

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Turning Your Kid’s Drawings into 3D Printed Toys

How to bring your kid's art to life with 3D design and printing.

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Maker Pro News: Startups Are The Future of 3D Printing

This week, we look at how startups might be the future of 3D printing, what La Machine's newest invention looks like, and how a new smart motor could revolutionize drones.

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Saturday 17 March 2018

Weekend Watch: Explore the Miniature World of Landvaettr’s Lair

Enter a miniature fantasy world built from little more than coffee stirrers, foam, toothpicks, paint, and glue.

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Friday 16 March 2018

Tips of the Week: Finishing 3D Parts, Heating Flexi Filament, Building Irresistible Spaces, and Reducing Plastic Waste

From 3D printing to sanding and finishing to knowing how to riff on camera, here are this week's top tips.

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Craft Your Own Paper Board Game

You don't need high tech gadgets to have fun. With some pens, paper, and imagination, you can craft your own board game.

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Thursday 15 March 2018

Construct Your Own Custom Video Game Controller

If you play a video game that requires you to glide or fly through the air, you might enjoy this custom analog controller.

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Reinventing Cyberpunk for the #TwentyTeens

A woman with a VR helmet over her shoulder looks at the camera.Like many great Make: ideas, the centerpiece of the latest issue, an homage to Mondo 2000’s iconic “R. U. a Cyberpunk?” poster (located in the forthcoming Make: Vol 62, page 24), all started in the Video Lab. Make:’s Senior Video Producer Tyler Winegarner and I like to sit around and bounce ideas off […]

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Wednesday 14 March 2018

Vi on Pi

The "recreational mathemusician," Vi Hart, goes off on her annual Pi Day rant.

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Classic Concepts in Our New “Mad Science” Humble Bundle

Check out our "Mad Scientist" Humble Bundle deal before it’s over. It ends in exactly a week at 10:59amPT on Wednesday, March 21.

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Celebrate Pi Day with these 9 Maker Share Projects

Celebrate Pi Day with us with these Maker Share projects that use a Raspberry Pi. They range from the simple to the complex.

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Tuesday 13 March 2018

Edible Innovations: What Does the Future of Global Farming Look Like?

These three food makers are having a global impact on farming by implementing edible innovations in their own corner of the world.

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Monday 12 March 2018

Sharpening Angles for Kitchen Knives

Alex of French Guy Cooking explores sharpening angles for various kitchen knifes.

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Maker Pro News: A Great Startup Doesn’t Need a Breakthrough Technology

Entrepreneurs often promote their products as breakthroughs, however it’s often more prudent to watch the market for a new proof of concept first.

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