Arduino Announces Manufacturing Partnership with SeeedStudio
Arduino and SeeedStudio have entered a manufacturing partnership to produce the new Genuino branded boards for China and other Asian markets.
Adafruit Sits Down and Talks with Makerbot’s New CEO
Over the first few years of their existence, Makerbot leveraged their community and the bourgeoning open source hardware movement to make their name synonymous with desktop 3D printing. What Kleenex is to facial tissue or Scotch is to cellophane tape, Makerbot has come to be for 3D printing. But then came a shift, patents began to be […]
Get Organized: DIY Mail Station
I’m definitely an everything-in-its-place kind of gal, and this smart and useful DIY mail station definitely caught my organization-obsessed eye! Fun fact: I’ve had Father’s Day cards—addressed, sealed, and ready to go—sitting on my worktable since last Wednesday. But, do you think I can manage to remember to grab them on my way out the […]
Doortop Stash
Hide a doortop stash in the hard-to-find, but easy-to-reach area above your door.
Take a Mad Max: Fury Road-Inspired Watercolor Tutorial
I love this watercolor tutorial using a scene from Mad Max: Fury Road as the subject. Well-known artist/illustrator Scott C. (Scott Campbell) shows you how he uses reference shots from the film, does some preliminary sketches, composites the scene based on those sketches, and then, casually step-by-step, how he went about painting up the final […]
Sweet Surprise: How to Make a Candy-Filled Piñata Cake
Celebrating a special occasion? Delight the guest of honor—and anyone else with a sweet tooth—with a candy-filled piñata cake! If you love the excitement that a traditional piñata brings to a party, you’ll definitely have fun with this layer cake’s surprise candy center. (And you won’t even need a stick to retrieve the tasty treats!) […]
Building a Robot Arm Part 1: Designing the Arm with CAD Software
Exploring what is possible with robots and how to design a robot arm.