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GitHub is Doing Great (Wireless) Things With Their Replicator 2

GitHub is Doing Great (Wireless) Things With Their Replicator 2

By Eric Weinhoffer

Eric Weinhoffer

Eric is a Mechanical Engineer with interests in machining, mass manufacturing, product design and kinetic art. While not building things, he enjoys skiing, cycling, and juggling.

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My college roommate, Mike Skalnik, a developer at GitHub, recently told me about their new MakerBot Replicator 2, which he and his coworkers have been working to automate so that anyone in the company can 3D Print things easily. They’ve been doing great things with it since it arrived at their San Francisco office little more than a week ago, and I had a chance to stop by when I was in the area for a closer look.

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New in the Maker Shed: Arduino WiFi Shield

New in the Maker Shed: Arduino WiFi Shield

By Michael Castor

Michael Castor

I am the Evangelist for the Maker Shed. It seems that there is no limit to my making interests. I'm a tinkerer at heart and have a passion for solving problems and figuring out how things work. When not working for Make I can be found falling off my unicycle, running in adverse weather conditions, skiing down the nearest hill, restoring vintage motorcycles, or working on my car.

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Looking for a way to network enable your Arduino projects without wires? Look no further, you need the Arduino WiFi Shield available in the Maker Shed! This shield fits atop your Arduino and will connect to an 802.11b/g network with relative ease. The shield comes completely assembled and uses pass through headers allowing other shields […]

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Calling All Covert Operators – Build a Bug with Weekend Projects

Calling All Covert Operators – Build a Bug with Weekend Projects

By Nick Normal

Nick Normal

I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!

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Build a wireless “bug” by combining an amplified listener with a short-range FM transmitter. Hide the circuit in a book or other discreet object.

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In the Maker Shed: Using the Minty Mote Arduino Remote

In the Maker Shed: Using the Minty Mote Arduino Remote

By Maker Shed

Maker Shed

The Maker Shed is brought to you by Maker Media, the makers of MAKE Magazine, the Maker Faire, and much more.

Launched originally as a source for back issues of MAKE Magazine, the Maker Shed expanded rapidly to meet the demand for 'projects in a box,' otherwise known as kits. Now we have a little bit of everything for makers, crafters, and budding scientists, from Arduinos to sock monkeys to chemistry sets .

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Do you want to add a simple wireless remote control to your Arduino projects without spending a bundle? The Minty Mote Kit (available in the Maker Shed) can be used for door bells, basic home automation, a simple robot controller and more.

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Raspberry Pi in the Sky!

Raspberry Pi in the Sky!

By kevino

kevino

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PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]

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Retrofitting a Classic Mouse with Wireless

Retrofitting a Classic Mouse with Wireless

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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The folks from UnconventionalHacker posted a fantastic Instructable on how to use the insides of an inexpensive wireless mouse to bring wireless to a classic, corded mouse.

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Networking 400 Balloons with XBees

Networking 400 Balloons with XBees

By Brian Jepson

Brian Jepson

I'm a tinkerer and finally reached the point where I fix more things than I break. When I'm not tinkering, I'm probably editing a book for Maker Media.

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Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is helping to light up the sky with XBees: This week I’m heading to Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K. for Connecting Light, 400 giant illuminated balloons that will cross England coast to coast along Hadrian’s Wall, a 2000-year-old Roman barrier. This will be my first exposure […]

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