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No Punches Pulled in This Ridiculous Clinton vs Trump Showdown Game

No Punches Pulled in This Ridiculous Clinton vs Trump Showdown Game

By Homemade Game Guru

Homemade Game Guru

As a fanatic crafting fan, inventor, author and designer, I just enjoy making new things for the fun of it! I operate an award-winning how-to You Tube channel called The Homemade Game Guru to share my love of creation with people worldwide. Utilizing cardboard in grandiose ways is my specialty.

I also run an unique online design class to help anyone create a Personal Family Tree Board Game. You can sign up for that class here.

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If you’ve ever wondered how US politics look like to outsiders this “Rock’em Sock’em” Clinton vs. Trump board game gives an idea.

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Brick, Steak, Phones, & Bitcoin: How Tech and Design Intersect to Shape Our Future

Brick, Steak, Phones, & Bitcoin: How Tech and Design Intersect to Shape Our Future

Tom Burtonwood

By Tom Burtonwood

Tom Burtonwood

Tom Burtonwood is an artist, educator and entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Burtonwood co-founded Mimesis, LLC a product development company focused on 3D scanning and digital fabrication. He teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College.

Find Tom on Twitter: @tburtonwood and on Instagram: @tomburtonwood

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We attended design summit “Knotty Objects” at the MIT Media Lab to talk about technology, design, and the future of humanity. Here’s how it went.

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Craft Your Way Through the Election

Craft Your Way Through the Election

By Meg Allan Cole

Meg Allan Cole

DIY guru

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Unless you’ve been hiding under a Ba-rock (sorry) you have been inundated with information and opinions about this election. This post contains none of that, I just wanted to show you how the cute, but now retired blog, Sewer Sewist celebrated the last election with their Obama Craft Project . A refreshingly positive and fun way of dealing with these elections. So keep yourself sane with your crotchet, knitting, or sewing needles tonight!

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Engineer Guy vs. The Atomic Bomb

Engineer Guy vs. The Atomic Bomb

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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One of the great treats of my chemistry education at UT-Austin was having the original gaseous diffusion process for enriching uranium explained to me by a man who worked on the Manhattan Project to implement it, the late great Dr. Norman Hackerman. Bill treats it just as well, and goes on to cover the details of the more modern gas centrifuge process.

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Petition the White House for Open Journal Access

Petition the White House for Open Journal Access

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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At issue is free public access to scientific information gathered using tax dollars.   Which, in the US, is about a third of it.  If you’ve ever been hot on the trail of a technical lead and run up against a robot demanding $40 to download one four-page, thirty-year-old journal article, you know what I’m talking about.

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Geiger Counter Tree Lights Respond to Radiation

Geiger Counter Tree Lights Respond to Radiation

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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I will spare you the obligatory “nuclear family Christmas” joke. From British artist Nikki Pugh.

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