Cursed Objects: Jumpstart the Season With These Spooky Builds
Make your Halloween the spookiest it can possibly be! There’s no way we could include all the wonderfully inspiring projects that we loved this year. Here are just a few that stood out.
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Adafruit QT Py ESP32 Pico
The QT Py ESP32 Pico is a tiny microcontroller board featuring Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The heart of the board is the all-in-one ESP32 Pico V3 02. This chip provides 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (with BLE). It has 8 MB of flash memory and 2 MB of RAM. It even brings its own oscillator. […]
Three California Women Makers Who Have Started New Kit Businesses
CARRIE SUNDRA is the founder of Alpenglow Industries in San Luis Obispo, California. She grew up on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, then attended Harvey Mudd College where she proudly scored a 19 on her first electrical engineering exam. NANCY OTERO is a Mexican-American entrepreneur, dancer, mother, and educator in Oakland, California. […]
Three MakeyBit Projects To Haunt Your Halloween
Hi everyone! My name is Cecilia Hillway and I like combining art and technology. Today I will be talking about how you can use the new MakeyBit Adventure Board to make some spooky Halloween projects. For these projects, I chose to use the Microbit microcontroller with the MakeyBit. The Makeybit is such a fun-looking board […]
A Simple Technique to Add Lights to Masks and Props
Buying a mask at the Halloween store is fun, but very few store-bought masks include lights. It’s a good thing we’re makers and can fix that! In this quick tutorial, Natasha from TechnoChic shows how to add a simple circuit to any mask so that it can light the night. The trick is to create […]
Get Curious At Maker Faire Milwaukee
The maker spirit is alive and well this weekend at Maker Faire Milwaukee, which sets up at its new home in the Discovery World Museum with newbie makers and veterans, young, old and everything in between.
Enter Arrakis: The Fastest Sand Table In The Galaxy
Arrakis is robotic coffee table that draws beautiful patterns in sand while you watch. Unlike others seen on youtube, this table can draw at up to 2000 mm/sec. No time lapse necessary!
