Is My Mid Century Modern Desk An Homage or a Cheap Knock Off?
I designed and built a beautiful desk, but should I share the files?
Build a Pair of Helping Hands to Hold Your Project in Place
Holding your work on your workbench can be a frustrating task, but this project should give you an extra pair of “helping hands” to work with.
Making Faux Leather from Kombucha!
A group of biohackers turn the bacterial byproduct of kombucha tea into a leather-like material.
Adafruit Trinket M0
We have already covered a good number of Adafruit’s line of boards designed to support their new CircuitPython system. While these boards still interact with the Arduino ecosystem that we all love (or don’t), they shine while running the custom built python distribution that they were designed for. Most of these boards are similar to […]
Espruino Pico
Building from the success of the first Espruino board, creator Gordon Williams revisited Kickstarter to launch its successor, the Espruino Pico. The biggest changes are its processor — a powerful ARM Cortex M4 — and its form factor — a diminutive 1.3″ x 0.6″, with a USB type-A male plug on one end, letting you pop the board […]
The Faces of Maker Faire Kuwait
A sand sculpture of a mosque, a beach cleaning robot, an underwater robot for monitoring oil spills in the ocean, wooden models of the traditional sailing boat known as a dhow, a proof of concept for an air conditioner that uses ceramic tiles to reduce the amount of electricity used to cool hot air (kindaishin […]
Replicating an Ancient Pump Drill
Chris from Clickspring recreates the type of push drill that was likely used to fabricate the ancient Antikythera Mechanism .