Corinne Okada Takara: Bringing Biology and Sustainable Materials Into Youth Makerspaces
Part science lab, part artistic experiment, part eye-opening experience with the natural world, Takara’s homebrew makerspace brings biodesign to eager students.
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Creating Beautiful Clipboards From Ambrosia Maple
Ok, yes, a clipboard is a mundane and possibly boring item. However, Caleb Harris shows us that they can, in fact, be beautiful too. Starting from lumber, Caleb shows us how he steps through the process of creating these beautiful pieces. It involves quite a bit of forethought and planning to get the result he’s […]
Celebrating Pi Day at the Sphero RVR Hackathon
I joined a select group of students, makers and educators who didnโt let the ominous Bomb Vortex Blizzard (actual name of the snowstorm that hit Colorado last week) stop us from making our way to Boulder CO for the Sphero RVR Pi Day Hackathon. 10 early supporters of the RVR Kickstarter campaign got hands-on with […]
Construct A Super Cheap Rocket Stove From Scrap Materials
Rocket stoves are a pretty cool concept. They are simple to construct and surprisingly efficient in burning fuel. In this example we see how you can create one from some cheap scraps that you can source for roughly $5 and some effort. While a cheap rocket stove may not initially seem like a big deal, […]
DIY Swarmbots
Build a mesh-networked mob of R/C cars with Particle microcontrollers.
Nvidia Launches $99 Jetson Board for Makers, Self-Training Robot Software
Nvidia reached out to makers with a late Valentineโs gift today, the launch of the budget-friendly Jetson Nano, a single-board computer geared for robotics and AI. The previous three generations of Jetson AI cores have been at the heart of many industrial robots, but their price tags have put them out of reach of many […]
Easily Fold Useful Shapes With This Incredible Paper Template Library
Sometimes a resource pops up that is just over-the-top in terms of it’s usefulness. Template Maker by Maarten van der Velde is one an outstanding example of a resource to bookmark for later use. Template Maker is a collection of calculators that create various papercraft templates for you, all free. At first glance, you might […]
