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with the editors and authors of MAKE Monday March 15, 2010
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Maker Benjamin Blundell built a DIY iPhone RFID reader and documented the process on his website. [via Slashdot]
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Nick Thatcher's compact coilgun uses a coil of copper wire along the barrel to launch its projectile. It's powered by 15 photoflash capacitors juiced up by 2 AAAs. Of course the power of this gun is very much in...
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Ebay seller nes_harmonica is offering three of these old Nintendo cartridges that have been modded to contain working harmonicas. Why the heck would you do that? Turns out it's kind of a retro in-joke for NES enthusiasts. OhGizmo's Andrew Liszewski explains:
If you grew up in the 80's and played video games, at one point in your childhood you had to blow on an NES cart, or inside the console itself, to get it to recognize a game. In fact I never even had an NES, but I can still remember having to do it on a friend's system. At this point it's almost become cliche to bring it up whenever the conversation turns to classic video games, but that didn't stop one clever modder from attempting to turn a profit on Nintendo's folly.
Right now Super Mario 3, Dick Tracy, and Legend of Zelda models are available. [via Geekologie]
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Einstein, who would be 131 today, needs no introduction. The foremost mathematician of the 20th Century, he held a position at the Institute of Advanced Study, one of the most storied intellectual centers in the world. Nobel Prize. He...
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Happy Pi Day from Makers Market! This sterling silver Pi Pendant and Pi Earrings from Oregon jewelers Nicholas and Felice would be a great gift for the mathematician, engineer, or scientist in your life.
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From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user arms22 built this neat Arduino-based camera, including a LS20031 GPS receiver and a C328 640x480 camera module, with a SD card to store images. The maker provides more information and code on...
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While I love a good, messy workshop, I appreciate a clean one if only to get tips on organizing my own space. Craig and Cindy Smith's shop, which they call the Firefly Workshop, offers some neat tricks. Also, what's...
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Happy 3.1415926535 - Pi Day! Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi =...
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This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Smallest Zine In The World by The Bottomless Paddling Pool, play clothtylophone by syano, Schlitz box amp by nitdoggx, Oscilloscope + arduino by zeni666....
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The folks over at Geek Squad produced this helpful infographic describing a rescue method that might help save your phone if you accidentally dunk it in water.
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Kirigami is kind of like origami except you get to make cuts, too! Check out Daniel Wyllie L. Rodrigues's excellent kirigami geometric shapes. The top image is called Five Spheres of Persistence. Each of the five spheres consists of...
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Xylocopa Design (of Build-Your-Own Ratmobile fame) just added this beautiful Mysterious Mushroom Puzzle to their Makers Market store: These gorgeous engraved wooden mushrooms fit together to make a 6" square - but in only one configuration! Assembling them may...
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Conference-goers had fun building tiny robots and high-tech graffiti at the TEDActive event in Palm Springs this year, thanks to Newegg and the Maker Shed. The annual get-together of big thinkers had a "lab" area where conference attendees built bristlebots, LED throwies, and RGB LED origami lamps.
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You've heard of tilt-shift photography, right -- pix shot with a special lens that makes everything look like little models. Well, check out Sam O'Hara's The Sandpit, an awesome tilt-shift movie of a day in the life of New...
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MAKE is at the FIRST Robotics expo at the Javits Center in NYC for the NY/NJ regionals. Check out my Flickr set for some of the robot action! The New York City / New Jersey FIRST is a regional office...
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Each week I help Ladyada with "Ask an engineer" at 10pm ET, a live video chat for beginners and pros, all about engineering and making things - this week she will going through another chapter in the Make: Electronics...
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Alan at Hacked Gadgets found this neat video that shows how ball bearings are made.
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Last year, I gave family members letters from the World's Smallest Postal Service for Christmas. They are awesome and make a fun gift. Spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool is this professed "smallest zine in the world," an art...
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