Friday, 30 November 2018

Tips of the Week: Binder Clip Hacks, Saw Tips, Engineering Basics, and Using a Laptop as a Light Box

Another week, another spankin-good round up of indispensable shop tips, tricks, and hacks.

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How to Upgrade Your 3D Printer With a Laser Engraver

Upgrading your 3D printer is a fantastic way to improve performance and print quality, as well as learn how the machine works. Often the upgrades are simple things to make it run quieter, get better cooling, control the environment through an enclosure, detect filament jams, and other things of that […]

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Thursday, 29 November 2018

5 Cool DIY Projects to Make for Holiday Presents

Here are some suggestions for high-impact homemade gifts that won't cost you too dearly in time or money.

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From Raspberry Pi to Home Brewing, Here Are 19 Projects To Make From Our Gift Guide

Raspberry Pi Model A+Gift guides are great, nearly everybody loves them. They may be one of the few advertisements that people are happy to see, since they can genuinely help you decide on a fun gift for a loved one. I know I use them pretty extensively for my shopping. We came up […]

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Wednesday, 28 November 2018

DJI’s Tiny New Osmo Pocket Steadicam Looks Good For Project Documenting

A few years ago, the only options for camera stabilizers were awkward rigs that required carefully balanced passive gimbals, or clunky, large weights strapped to the bottom of a camera to add shake-reducing mass. As the drone industry has pushed micro-gimbal technology forward, it’s fascinating to see it become implemented […]

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Sign Up for Our Free Wearables Livestream Workshop

Now is as good a time as ever to jump into the world of waerables, and we can help you do that with our upcoming free Live Workshop, hosted by expert tech maker and fashion designer Kitty Yeung.

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7 Must-Have Mods For 3D Printing, CNC Routing, and Lasering

  While we all know our printers, routers, and lasers will work well out of the box and wouldn’t want to get in the way of their superior craftsmanship, some of the more wild and crazy of our brood will dive in to modifying them. These mods can improve not […]

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Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Putting Together a Maker’s Gift Basket

Consider a basket filled with useful tools and supplies for the active makers on your gift list.

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Cool Crowdfunding: Crystal Sequin LED, Pinhole Cameras, and IoT Platforms

See the crowdfunding projects that caught our editor’s eye this week.

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Friday, 23 November 2018

Live Blog: Maker Faire Paris 2018

Check often to see what makers are doing in Paris!

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Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Cozmo has a new brother, VECTOR!

If Amazon Alexa and Cozmo got together and had a kid it would be Vector, the latest from the Anki company. You can ask Vector "Alexa" questions like "what's the weather?" plus he he has all the charm of Cozmo. He can recognize your face, he has better motion sensors (so he doesn't fall off the table like Cozmo tends to do), and he knows when to go back to his space to recharge. He's more like your personal assistant than a robot child who always wants to play games with you and WIN. He has a timer, built in camera (you can ask him to take a picture), and can play Blackjack with you. He also syncs with Alexa so you can add items to a shopping list, set reminders, control household devices, and more.  He will even come when called!

I love their website. They joke around about the "robot evil overloads" because once you see it, you know we're all thinking it. Good thing he's still tiny.




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Maker Faire Galicia and the Journey to the Future: Makers on a Mission

Don't miss checking out their biggest show yet!

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Watch The Mesmerizing LED Undulations of the Quantum Garden

Quantum mechanics can be confusing. They can also be pretty.

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Live Now: Make’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide

We’re thrilled to announce that the 2018 Make: Holiday Gift Guide is live! There are a staggering number of tools and gadgets that fit in the domain of makers — everything from drills to microcontrollers to implements for scientific discovery. These pieces can help someone start or complete a project, […]

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Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Maker Faire Paris N°5: DIY Design For The People, By The People

the 5th year is going to be incredible!

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Making a Handmade Rubber Stamp and Ink Box

Brett McAfee turns a chunk of maple and some rubber into a logo stamp for his Skull & Spade brand.

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A Maker’s Space in Paradise Burns Down

Northern California’s deadly Camp Fire raged through the town of Paradise on November 8, 2018. It burned nearly all of the area known by locals at The Ridge. As of November 19, Cal Fire reports that 77 people died in the fire, the largest in state history, and that 11,713 […]

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Designing 3D Printed Stamps For Metal Pressing

Shaping metal with 3D printed forms

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Monday, 19 November 2018

Last Chance: Sign Up For Our Free 3D Design Workshop

Learn how to go from small to big with this exclusive livestream workshop.

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DiResta Builds a Canoe

Follow along as Jimmy DiResta builds a gorgeous 15' wooden canoe.

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3D Printing a Christmas Monorail

When the perfect part is prohibitively priced, print your own!

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Sunday, 18 November 2018

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Friday, 16 November 2018

Build an Affordable Air Purifier With a Box Fan and Hepa Filter

California is still reeling from devastating wildfires that have tragically claimed many lives and thousands of homes. As the fires continue to burn, the smoke has collected throughout the San Joaquin basin, slowly feeding its way out over the San Francisco Bay Area. In turn, that area is currently experiencing […]

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Tips of the Week: Chop Saw Tips, Improving a Cheap Airbrush, and Tinfoil, Duct Tape, and Toilet Paper as Crafting Materials

Tips, tricks, and inspired ideas from across the online maker world.

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Behind the Scenes With La Machine’s Giant Minotaur

50 tons of steel with hand carved wooden flesh walks the streets of Toulouse France

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Thursday, 15 November 2018

Reverse Engineering Strange Devices Found in a Library

Follow along to uncover the intent of these devices hidden behind trashcans and vending machines in a college library.

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Our most popular makerspace/STEM/Library of Things

As of April 2018, we did a kit circulation report.  We had 106 kits which have circulated 1,047 times since it's inception in 2015.  Here is the top 10 list of most circulated. These include hobby kits, puzzles, cake pans, instruments, science robots/STEM, and American Girl dolls.

The ukulele kits (we have one soprano and one concert kit) have been around the longest and have circulated 106 times total.  Just remember someone should change the strings yearly and definitely include a tuner (we like the snark) as new strings on a uke take a while to break in.

Surprisingly our meditation toolbox comes in second with 51 checkouts.  It is just some CDs and a DVD.  This one has also been around since the inception of our kits.


Next up is our virtual reality headset toolbox.  It is a Homido Virtual Reality headset. If that is too pricey, I recommend Google Cardboard. 


Our sewing machine comes in 5th. 


Knitting is a great idea for a toolbox and very popular but limit the number of needles if circulation plans on counting them during every check in.

The Bongos come in 7th. Also to note it is easier to care for than ukulele.


Banjo comes in 8th with 33 checkouts. Just make sure someone knows how to restring and care for this..perhaps the local music shop?


Polymer clay sculpting kit would need some materials replacement if you want to include clay but it comes in 9th with 32 checkouts.


Last in our list, is the Go Pro Camera which has been replaced once already due to wear and tear.  I would recommend NOT including all the other crazy pieces in it for the camera unless it is nicely labeled.


The lowest circulated items for us are the cake pans, a computer maintenance kit, world travel adapter kit (for apple and other), and some of the fancier but lesser know board games like Trophy Buck and Chupacabra.


In case anyone is interested here is our full list of kits. See attached. 






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Maker Pro News: Simple Solutions to Complex Problems

Also, how to cut through the hype about smart manufacturing.

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Remaking History: Build Your Own Copper Still

Zakariya Al-Razi, the Secret of Secrets, and the invention of the modern still

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Slightly Smaller, Just as Powerful: Raspberry Pi Launches Pi 3 Model A+

It’s been a while since Raspberry Pi has updated their Model A board — four years, specifically. Their new release, announced today, takes the Pi 1 Model A+ and bumps it up to Pi 3 specs, incorporating the same 64-bit quad core processor with 1.4Ghz clock speed and 2.4/5Ghz wireless […]

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Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Thinking Big (and Big Faces and Big Trumpets) at Maker Faire Rochester 2018

This coming weekend, November 16th & 17th, Maker Faire Rochester celebrates its 5th season by graduating to a full-fledged Featured Faire! 

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King Dedede’s Jet Hammer Comes To Life With This Motorized Cosplay

the motion and flame effect on this prop are simply incredible

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Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Making a Spiro the Dragon Hat

To mark the release of the Spiro Reignited Trilogy, the folks at Punished Props make a Spiro hat.

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10 Wearable Projects To Inspire and Amuse

With a bit of ingenuity, you can make anything into a wearable.

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Monday, 12 November 2018

Tips and Tales from Gareth Branwyn

In honor of the new DIY Humble collection launching today, we checked in with Make: author, columnist, and one-time editorial director Gareth Branwyn, whose most recent book, Tips and Tales from the Workshop, is the featured title in this bundle. Gareth is an accomplished author and journalist who has significantly […]

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3D Printed Etching Press

Pull traditional intaglio prints on a mini press you made yourself!

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Interactive Design, Playfulness and Smarts Underline Montreal’s Maker Faire

After a hiatus of four years, Maker Faire has returned to Montreal with all cylinders firing.

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