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Announcing Project Remake!

Announcing Project Remake!

Calling all makers! The Project Remake Contest is in search of a maker who can turn everyday materials into a new & great creation. Five winners will receive a MakerBot Replicator. One Grand Prize winner will receive an expenses-paid trip to World Maker Faire in NYC this September!

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Environmental Monitoring With Arduino goes to the Gowanus Canal

Environmental Monitoring With Arduino goes to the Gowanus Canal

Emily Gertz and Patrick Di Justo, authors of Environmental Monitoring With Arduino (available from Maker Shed and O’Reilly), wrote it to let me know that the book got used as a textbook in the recent NYC Water Hackathon. They’ve got the pictures to prove it, too! Brooklyn, NY, March 25 — Patrick and I went […]

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How-To:  Buy sustainably-managed lumber

How-To: Buy sustainably-managed lumber

I haven’t verified that last bit for myself, but I did spend a long time googling around yesterday afternoon and satisfied myself that these FSC folks are on the level. That’s their “tree with a check mark” seal in the photo, above. Now I know what to look for. And so do you. [Thanks, Hank!]

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Environmental test kits of my youth

Environmental test kits of my youth

I was out to dinner the other night with O’Reilly/MAKE’s Brian Jepson, his wife Joan, and our new Make: Online author Kipp Bradford. We were talking about the awesome Thames & Kosmos science and tech kits we carry in the Maker Shed. The conversation inevitably turned to chemistry kits of yore, the beloved kits of […]

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Realtime sensor network awaits your input … or output

Realtime sensor network awaits your input … or output

Wow, this could grow into something quite awesome. Pachube is – a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. The idea is to make it relatively simple to “plug” together interactive projects […]

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