With the final installment of the Star Wars saga premiering in the immediate future, it is time to whip up a last minute craft project to help show your enthusiasm at the show. You know there’s not much more you want in life than to have your own loyal companion like Chewbacca, and now you […]
I recently got an opportunity to check out a really cool piece of machinery: the Roland VersaUV Lef 12i. They sent a loaner unit that I got to experiment with and test out for a few weeks. There are two main reasons you’d want to use a printer like this: First, using UV cured ink […]
Subscribers should be getting their paper copies now, and members of the online community can access the digital edition too! For the rest of you, this issue should be arriving on store shelves this month.
This Wednesday at 12:00 noon PST we’ll be connecting to the Yale CEID for a live tour! The Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Design is the makerspace on Yale campus where students can go and explore tech and tools that make their ideas come to reality. Thanks to our sponsor Digi-Key, we’ll be continuing […]
Bob and friends from the youtube channel I Like To Make Stuff have really outdone themselves this year. In an effort to add some excitement to the neighborhood over the holidays, they’ve created a giant Christmas tree video game! The game is fairly simple, but the execution of everything including the construction is quite well […]
If you’ve been enjoying HBO’s series The Watchmen, you probably perked up at Sister Night’s goggles that allow her to augment her vision in various ways. A good prop is always exciting to the maker community and this one was perfect for being recreated. The folks over at Adafruit have done just that, and shared […]
We had the opportunity to explore Prusa’s latest entry into the 3D printing market, the SL1. This is a masked SLA printer, which means that the resin is cured via a UV lamp, that shines through an LCD screen up into the vat of resin. The current trend in this market has been to cut […]
