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Laser Tripwire Alarm
No security system is complete without lasers.

Make Your Own Mega Make
Print your own articulating action-hero robot model.

Glow Plug 3D Printer Extruder
Want to upgrade or customize your 3D printer? Build this robust extruder using a handful of tools, one online parts order, and a trip to the auto-parts store. For a heater, it uses a $10 glow plug from a diesel engine — and it performs as well as commercially available extruders.

Full Body Scanning with the Scan-O-Tron 3000
Use this rig with a Kinect sensor to make full-body scans of your guests for 3D printing.

Heavy Duty Turntable for 3D Scanning People
Build a heavy duty turntable for use with your Scan-O-Tron 3000.

 Smartphone Projector
You can show off your mobile photos and your phone hack savvy by turning your smartphone into an inexpensive projector.

Hack “My Keepon” With an Arduino Brain
It’s alive! Hack your My Keepon toy into a low-cost animatronic puppet with many of the same functions as Keepon Pro. We'll show you how to connect an Arduino to My Keepon’s electronics, so you can control it using just about any sensors, devices, and interfaces you can imagine, wired or wireless.

Cellular Sensor Sentinel
This project uses the Seeed Studio GPRS/GSM v2.0 Shield to build a versatile Arduino-based remote alarm system that can notify your cell phone within seconds, via text message, when nearby doors or windows are opened or closed, pressure sensors depressed, or motion sensors activated, just to name a few of the many possibilities. Here we'll teach you how to connect simple motion, touch, pressure, and light sensors, and how to program the Arduino to use the shield to send text messages when these detect events. It's easy to adapt this system to use other sensor devices like temperature probes, magnetic switches, tilt sensors, etc.

How to Use Repetier-Host
Some 3D printing software is easier to learn than others.

DIY Hacks & How To’s: Magnetic Tool Hanger
In most workshops space is limited.

Luminous Lowtops
The light-up shoes from your childhood are all grown up — these Luminous Lowtops are force-sensitive, full-color LED light-up shoes for adults. Each shoe has two embedded force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) — one under the heel and one under the ball of the foot — and up to 40 RGB LEDs that change color based on the FSR readings, giving brilliant visual effects when you walk, stomp, jump, or lean. And a mini Arduino runs the show, so you can imagine the possibilities for customizing the code!

Build the Vector Weapon Enclosure Kit
This guide will show you how to build the Vector Weapon Enclosure (which is the default add-on to our Vector Weapon Kit in the Maker Shed).