It’s 15 years since LilyPad — learn what’s new and make your first iron-on circuit!
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It’s fun to use mini solar cells to charge your gear or power small gadgets, and once you’ve learned the basics you can scale up to bigger panels. Let’s explore ways you can harness solar energy for your own DIY projects — mobile, wearable, or otherwise — and say goodbye to (some) batteries and plugging things [&]
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Some people keep digital picture frames on their desk that display images of their loved ones and special occassions. Sometimes they show fancy locations that theyve visited. Matt Grays digital picture frame shows everyone and everywhere on earth. This little project that uses a Raspberry Pi W and a circular display is fairly simple in [&]
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Rick Stanley makes very special clocks. He makes clocks out of beer bottles (over 300 Yuengling beer bottles to be exact), clocks with bicycle bells, clocks featuring coins, dominoes, and fluids. He makes novelty clocks of great complexity alongside his son Vince Stanley in Millville, PA at Stanley Clockworks which they founded in 2006. Rick [&]
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Raspberry Pi announced today that there is a new vision system available for their eco system: The Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3. The new hardware has four variants: All four have a 12 megapixel 7.9mm (diagonal) Sony IMX708 sensor with autofocus and high dynamic range support. Unlike previous modules that had the c/cs mount available, [&]
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Space. For most, it is the final frontier. For others, it remains a distant galaxy far, far away. But for some, like the creative team of Nicole and Thure of When Geeks Craft, it is a destination already reached. Their stained-glass, fully-lit replica of the space shuttle Discovery demonstrates a passion for making that’s truly otherworldly. The two [&]
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Henrique Oliveira never knows exactly how his sprawling sculptures will take shape, which is, perhaps, a contributing factor to their organic look and feel, bridging the natural world with the modern, resulting in the surreal exhibitions and installations he’s been creating around the world for over a decade. “It was not something planned, like had an [&]
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Theres a whole genre of creation that is basically just engineers tinkering to make cute mechanical structures. Historically youd see odd whittled wood mechanisms and such, but with the proliferation of 3d printers, that hobby has exploded. One of my favorite creators in this Genre is JBV Creative. He simply applies complex mechanical engineering to [&]
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Playing with Lego is a time honored tradition of both young and and old. This build however takes things a few steps beyond simply plugging in the correct shapes to make your structure. Ancient James has designed and built a functional version of the little computer brick. It turns out that making one of these [&]
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The ATmega4809 Curiosity Nano board is an evaluation board from Microchip featuring one of the larger AVR microcontrollers from the 0-series. The board is designed to be maker-friendly with a familiar form factor supporting headers for breadboard use, plus castellated edges in case you choose to surface mount it. The board has an on-board programmer/debugger [&]
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It’s been another tumultuous year in the world of embedded electronics. Supply chain snags have scarcely relented, while new chips jostle for position as the maker’s go-to. Meanwhile, lots of exciting new boards, software, and other technologies let us continue to innovate. Let’s survey the maker landscape and see who stepped up when the chips were [&]
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The ATtiny3217 Curiosity Nano is an evaluation board from Microchip featuring one of their newer 1-series AVR microcontrollers. Microchip has made an effort to produce maker-friendly evaluation boards, so there isn’t much difference between this board and any other small microcontroller prototyping board. There is an on-board debugger that programs the chip and connects to [&]
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It’s now possible to build remote, low-power microcontroller projects that can operate indefinitely without batteries and still not crash, even if power is interrupted. Let that sink in. As an example, we’ll show you how to build a LoRa-based weather station that’s powered solely by solar panels. Its code is written in CircuitPython, running on a [&]
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A conversation with Tim Keller of Inventopia in Davis, CA Podcast Video Transcript You can imagine how it is at the North Pole this time of year. The elves are overworked and theyre running behind. Getting all the required materials to the North Pole is really hard with the supply chain problems. And then Santa [&]
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Working with “wireless” LEDs feels a bit like magic. These tiny LED assemblies can emit light without directly connecting to a power supply. The secret to their energy source is a nearby wire coil in which a high-frequency oscillating current generates a fluctuating magnetic field. Each induction-powered LED is attached to its own tiny wire coil, [&]
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Maker Faire Taipei returns for a Christmas special! This December 24th & 25th, Taiwanese makers come to the capital to share their projects, learn new techniques, and get inspired by the always leading-edge designs and ideas that pop up at this faire, its 9th!
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For the past few years the holiday season has been made thoroughly amusing by a series of collaborations put on by the youtube channel Kids Invent Stuff. They reach out to these channels and organize a secret santa exchange where you have to make the gift youre sending to another maker on youtube. This year, [&]
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On December 21st, 1968, exactly 55 years ago today, NASA sent humans outside of low earth orbit for the first time, captivating the world and ushering in a new era of space travel. An estimated 400,000 engineers, scientists, and manufacturers worldwide are accredited for helping build the rocket. To commemorate this milestone, we will model [&]
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We can’t hardly wait for the chip shortage to be over and dev boards to be abundant again, but instead of waiting for somebody to fix the supply chain, we’ve gathered a list of near substitutes and potential replacements for your next project. Unsatisfied with back-orders for your favorite Raspberry Pi or Arduino? Use the [&]
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Microsoft recently launched a whole suite of accessible input devices. Theyve really been leading the industry in designing devices specifically for greater accessibility for those that might have limb differences or movement restrictions. This set, specifically is interesting because MS is dabbling in letting users customize their stuff using 3D Printing! You can purchase the [&]
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