Want to study the raw power of lightning? According to Engineer Grey Leyh you build tools to control it, and that is just what he did. At Maker Faire Bay Area last fall, he walked through two incredible projects that turned extreme physics into reality. First, he resurrected a plasma cannon.Starting with an old, powerful […]

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MAKER FAIRE is interesting, innovative, inspiring, and, ALL AROUND THE WORLD. Going to Maker Faire anywhere is just plain fun, but getting to see the broad range of projects, the level of ingenuity and creativity, and the sheer effort that global makers and Maker Faire producers have made ALL IN ONE PLACE is astounding. Since […]

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Our favorite open source hardware certifications in November featured a spectrometer, an LED controller, and a slightly strange laundry solution.

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The medium-duty Work IQ Vise is for someone who wants ball joints on all the things.

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Join Dale Dougherty and Kathy Ceceri, author of Make: Paper Inventions, for a Fireside Chat exploring STEAM activities for young inventors.

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Arduino channels Xzibit, and Raspberry Pi reminds us why we love computers.

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It’s always a shock to witness the scale of things in China’s Bay Area. Despite only being the third largest national central city in China, Shenzhen dwarfs the combined population of the three largest US cities. Descending toward Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, this notion of scale is reinforced, as one immense skyscraper after another dominates […]

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If you have a table saw, you need a push block. Do you use a scrap, something pricy, or something in between like MicroJig's Grr-Ripper 2Go?

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Dom Dominici found a welcoming, passionate community of builders at Hackaday's Supercon in Pasadena.

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Makerspaces help local communities in many different ways. They also rely on their support.

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