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MAKE is a quarterly publication from O'Reilly for those who just can't stop tinkering, disassembling, re-creating, and inventing cool new uses for the technology in our lives. It's the first do-it-yourself magazine dedicated to the incorrigible and chronically incurable technology enthusiast in all of us. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend technology any way you want.
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Maker Shed kiosks at Fry's
We're ecstatic about the fact that we now have Maker Shed kiosks, with magazines, books, and electronics kits, in several California Fry's stores. We think this is big news, not only for Maker Media, but for all indie makers -- a major retail chain is now giving small kit-makers this level of exposu …
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New hackerspace in Chicagoland: Workshop 88
Good news for those in Chicagoland! Planning is underway to form Workshop 88, a hackerspace in the west suburbs of Chicago. Here's your chance to get in on the ground floor! We're currently in the planning stage, and we're looking for interested people in the area to help us get started. We're h …
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Mint tin electronics dev kit packs the essentials
From the MAKE Flickr pool Once you've caught the 'electronics bug', spending time away from the workbench/lab can seem an unpleasant prospect. Luckily, one can carry on learning and experimenting with a minimal amount of hardware. Nick shares his own recipe for ultra-compact electronics prototypin …
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Olympus BioScapes competition winners
Olympus BioScapes competition winners, amazing photos! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Imaging | Digg this!
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Mac mailbox
Mac mailbox from Te Atatu in Auckland... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Remake | Digg this!
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LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009
LHC tweets its first circulating beam of 2009, good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!
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LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009
LHC tweets it's first circulating beam of 2009, good luck finding the Higgs gang. Photos here... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this!
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Building a shop presence notification system
As a member of Hack Pittsburgh, our local hackerspace, one thing I've wanted to know if anyone else is there before I make the trek over. Well, so did Andy Leer and Marty McGuire, so they decided to build a shop presence notification system. They reasoned that they could measure the ambient light …
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Vacuum tube prototyping board
Bruce Heran made this prototyping board for his tube projects. He writes: This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test "board." I do a lot of work with tubes and love to design an …
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Free LED Cookbook from TI
By way of Andrew Q Righter of HacDC comes word of this free PDF from Texas Instruments, a 41-page "cookbook" of circuit designs and application notes for TI's LED-related components. [Thanks, Andrew!] LED Reference Design Cookbook [PDF] Read more | Permalink | Comments | …
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How-To: Open source intervalometer for Canon, Nikon cameras
Instructables user peterdr has put together a really excellent tutorial on how to build his CT-1 open-source hardware intervalometer for Canon and Nikon digital cameras. There's more info about the project at his personal website, and a parts kit is for sale on Amazon.com. Read more | Perma …
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PYMT, a multi-touch library for Python
Interested in building programs with fancy multi-touch interfaces? Speak Python? Well, in that case you might want to have a look at PYMT. Designed for rapid interface design, it looks like it would be fun to play around with. [via the space station] Read more | Permalink | Comments | …
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Cardboard tube battle
My local library picked up on the festive trend of Cardboard Tube Fighting. The Boston Globe covered the preparations: The group discovered cardboard tube fighting last summer in time to incorporate a bit of it into a presentation on Greek mythology at a reading program party. The weapons are cyl …
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LEGO-sized hole punch by MUJI
Paper craft meets LEGO with MUJI's quad hole punch and kits, available November 27th at MUJI Japan. [via CRAFT] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!
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Make: Projects - Pneumatic trough, part II
Last week I wrote about how to construct a simple sheet metal "bridge," which, in combination with an ice cube bucket and an olive jar, makes an effective pneumatic trough for collecting gas samples over water. This week I'm going to show you how to use this apparatus to generate and collect pure o …
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Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Gifts for dads
There's a funny thing about dads' toys. Very often, kids borrow dad's supposedly grown-up toys and dad plays with toys designed for a much younger demographic. With that in mind, we present the Gifts for Dads list, filled with stuff that may appeal to more than one generation in your household. And …
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Cross multi-tool
Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen sells these cruciform screwdrivers, which are laser-sintered stainless steel. There's a flat-blade, a Phillips head, and an IKEA-sized hex bit. [via Dude Craft] Read more | Permalink | Comments | …
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How PCBs are routed
One hour of PCB routing with EAGLE, compressed to seven minutes, over at adafruit. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in How it's made | Digg this!
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NEC announces universal translator … sorta, kinda
NEC announced what could be an early, real-life version of the universal translator -NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about a client's buying history beamed into their eye during a conversation. But, it said, it could …
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Arcade button MIDI controller kit
DJTechTools' upcoming solder-free MIDI controller kit provides users with 16 arcade button triggers + LEDs and will apparently be released as an open source product at launch - • Release Date: November 30th • Price: Aprox $125 for the Kit + Arcade Buttons ($2.50 each) optional wood case- $40 • Pl …
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