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Sunday 2013/05/26
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Mike Ross? Big Rig Jig
Sun, 26 May 2013 02:46:53 +0000  There are some sculptures that are so unique and visionary, they’re hard to forget. Bay Area artist Mike Ross‘ Big Rig Jig is one of them. Built in 2007, “Big Rig Jig is constructed from two discarded tanker trucks. The work serves both as a sculpture and an architectural space: […] |
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Aaron Vanderwerff Named ?Inspirational Teacher of the Year?
Fri, 24 May 2013 22:38:02 +0000  Oakland's Lighthouse Community Charter School is turning out some great young makers. If you attended Maker Faire this past week you might have run into Lighthouse students displaying a solar-powered scooter. (It started out as a go kart, but someone stole the chassis) and an EV truck project. The school's teachers are no slouches either. This week one of the students' instructors, Aaron Vanderwerff, was named "inspirational teacher of the year" |
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Sign up now for Maker Training Camps
Fri, 24 May 2013 22:10:37 +0000  Today, we offer you a new way of learning: Maker Training Camps. Training Camps are collaborative online courses specifically designed to make it easier to learn a new skill or build a specific project. Camps use Google hangouts and communities to make it easy to work with other students and teachers. Camps are generally between one and five weeks in length with a lecture, a project and optional office hours each week. |
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Controlling LEDs with Charlieplexing
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:51:03 +0000  MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of "Charlieplexing," a method for controlling multiple LEDs without the use of multiple microcontroller pins. With charlieplexing you can turn on or off one LED at a time. To light more than one LED at a time, you can scan the LEDs by turning a sequence of them on and off really fast. |
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New Project: DIY 3D Laser Scanner Using Arduino
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:05:11 +0000  The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and distance shoots a series of images. With some trigonometry considerations and optic laws it is relatively easy to reconstruct the Zeta dimension, the measurement of the distance between the object and the camera. |
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Maker Faire: One Maker?s Perspective
Fri, 24 May 2013 19:12:37 +0000  A timelapse of one maker's Maker Faire experience. |
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Tyler?s Maker Faire Robot Tattoo
Fri, 24 May 2013 19:01:10 +0000  At Maker Faire Bay Area last weekend, a group of editors were talking about the “maker tattoos” feature we’re working on for MAKE Volume 35, and someone wondered aloud when we might see the first iconic Maker Faire robot tattoo. Then, two days later, lo and behold, Instagram user @maiden_merica […] |
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5 Million LEGO Brick Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter
Fri, 24 May 2013 17:45:02 +0000  Thirty-two builders took 5.3m LEGO bricks and 17,000 hours to assemble this X-wing starfighter, unveiled yesterday in NYC's Times Square. It will be on view there for a few more days before heading to California for permanent install at LEGOLAND. |
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Milwaukee Makerspace?s Hacked Water Cooler
Fri, 24 May 2013 14:58:08 +0000  Ron Bean has a fascinating post on Milwaukee Makerspace’s wiki about his project to plumb in the hackerspace’s water cooler. In addition to the obligatory refrigerator full of soda (or sometimes empty of soda, depending on whether anyone’s filled it recently), we also have a water cooler that takes the […] |
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Ten Dollar Stomp Rocket Launcher
Thu, 23 May 2013 23:43:22 +0000  Chris Connors’ 10 Dollar Stomp Rocket Launcher looks pretty cool! Stomp rockets are a great way to introduce flight, pneumatics, and energy transfer through hands-on learning. Paper rockets are very easy to make, and use ?virtually free? materials. This will help encourage multiple iterations and exploration of rocket design. You […] |
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