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This Week in Making: Loki Lego Launcher and Maker Faire Memories

This Week in Making: Loki Lego Launcher and Maker Faire Memories

By Lisa Martin

Lisa Martin

A typical day for Lisa includes: getting up to see the sunrise, bicycling, interning at Make:, reading and writing short stories, and listening to audiobooks and podcasts for hours while working on projects or chores.

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This past week we were thrilled to see the amazing flight of Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung’s Loki Lego Launcher and we reminisced on MFBA16.

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Journey To The Edge Of Space: Take The Global Space Balloon Challenge

Journey To The Edge Of Space: Take The Global Space Balloon Challenge

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Registration for this year’s Global Space Balloon Challenge has just opened. Do you have what it takes to send a payload into near-space using a high-altitude balloon?

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