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Maker Business: Magnolia Atomworks, part 4

03/02/2010

Our dynamic DIY duo, John and Erin, take stock and look toward the future of their intrepid little company. —...

Design a 3D-printable mousetrap

03/02/2010

Cathal Garvey’s proposing a mousetrap design challenge: I have a problem. There lives in my house a tiny mouse, and...

Is the TechShop model in trouble?

02/26/2010

It sounded like a dream: a health club for nerds, only instead of treadmills and weight sets, members paid $125/month...

Dremel attachment for MakerBot

02/24/2010

The correct name for the MakerBot 3D printer is the Cupcake CNC, suggesting that all sorts of attachments could be...

Letters From the Fab Academy, Part 3

02/16/2010

In this series, “Letters from the Fab Academy,” Shawn Wallace, member of AS220, the Providence, RI community arts space, shares...

Make: Together (more collaborative couples)

02/14/2010

We asked several of our favorite maker couples to tell us a little bit about the ups and down of...

MakerBot heated build platform

02/12/2010

Jordan Miller of Philadelphia hackerspace Hive 76, with collaborators, has created a heated build platform for the MakerBot Cupcake CNC....

Review: Neil Gershenfeld’s FAB

02/12/2010

When Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, offered a class titled “How to Make (almost) Anything,”...

Letters From the Fab Academy, Part 2

02/09/2010

In this series, “Letters from the Fab Academy,” Shawn Wallace, member of AS220, the Providence, RI community arts space, shares...

Exploring the business of making

02/08/2010

For the next few months, in concert with our “Your Desktop Factory” themed issue of MAKE (Volume 21), we’re going...

Pac-Man shelves

02/04/2010

I dunno why you'd set it up to be NOM-ing your flatscreen TV, but I like the look of this,...

Lathing zen – making a vaccum hose adapter

02/03/2010

I don’t quite know why, but viewing detailed production process vids like this one, can induce a decidedly blissful, even...

Maker Business: Venturing out…

02/02/2010

Kicking off our Maker Business series is this piece by Jeffrey McGrew, who along with his wife Jillian Northrup, and...

MAKE, Volume 21: Desktop Manufacturing – plus a visit to MakerBot HQ!

02/01/2010

MAKE, Volume 21 digs into desktop factories, covering a variety of ways you can get started with personal manufacturing –...

Shapeways interviews Bre Pettis

01/27/2010

Check out this great Bre Pettis interview on the Shapeways blog, where he expounds on such things as RepRaps, Thingiverse...

“Letters, we get letters…”

01/22/2010

We got this wonderful letter from MAKE subscriber Jim Kelly that we thought we’d share with all of you: Make:...

Measuring alternator current with a Hall Effect Sensor

01/22/2010

Josh from imsolidstate built this circuit to answer the age old question, how much electric current does a truck really...

MAKE Volume 21: Snow Science and Snow Making

01/21/2010

Photo by James Moss (makesnow.net) As one of the biggest storms of the winter is hitting Lake Tahoe, MAKE Volume...

Build a Periodic Table of Elements Collection Cabinet

01/21/2010

Create this cool spice rack-like periodic table display for your elements collection. You do have an elements collection, don't you?

MAKE 21: Desktop Manufacturing

01/19/2010

Learn how to make three-dimensional parts using inexpensive computer-controlled manufacturing equipment. Both additive (RepRap, CandyFab) and subtractive (Lumenlab Micro CNC)...