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Check Out This Gorgeous Homage To Dune: The Hunter Seeker

October 22nd, 2021October 22nd, 2021 Caleb Kraft

3d printing or foam crafts lack the heft of real brass and aluminum. This build is really top notch.

Best Maker Schools: University of Maryland

October 21st, 2021October 21st, 2021 Dale Dougherty

Makerspaces are becoming a fixture on college and university campuses. In fact, there are often multiple makerspaces on campus. At the University of Maryland, College Park, the growth of makerspaces followed a pattern I’ve seen elsewhere. Student-driven makerspace were started, often as clubs, and then professors started spaces with departmental funding, but now larger makerspaces […]

Raspberry Pi Pico

The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first microcontroller developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It’s powered by the RP2040 chip, an all-new design created in-house by Raspberry Pi (their first foray into custom silicon), which features a dual-core 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264KB of RAM and supports up to 16MB of off-chip flash memory. […]

Core Memory: Why We Used 60-Year-Old Tech in an Arduino Shield

October 21st, 2021October 19th, 2021 Mike Senese

About ten years ago, we designed and made an Arduino shield implementing “core memory,” a technology that was sixty years old even then. Our shield stored 32 individual 1s or 0s using magnetic fields going either clockwise or anticlockwise around 32 tiny doughnuts of magnetisable ‘ferrite’ material. This kind of memory, invented in the 1950s, […]