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Secret Santa Slinks Down MAKE’s Chimney

This year, along with the gift of spacetime simultaneity, we decide to give the gift of virtuality. (It’s high-concept holidays here at MAKE!) We’re playing Secret Santa amongst the Makezine staff, but we’re not actually giving each other presents. The idea is to pick a staffmember’s name from a hat, think about something you think […]

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Gift Singularity: Give the Gift of a Strandbeest

Gift Singularity: Give the Gift of a Strandbeest

I’m excited to be kicking off our Gift Guide Singularity series with a project I’ve wanted to do for years — build a motorized, microcontrolled Strandbeest walker. I plan to give it to a close friend who’s also a robot enthusiast. I’ll run through how I’m planning to approach the build and will follow up with some posts on my progress.

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Counting Down to the Gift Singularity

Counting Down to the Gift Singularity

Starting off with a spacetime acceleration toward a goodness infinity, we’re launching a countdown to the Make: Gift Singularity. Between now and Christmas we’ll be presenting gift project ideas that you can build given the time available. So, projects that take longer will be posted first, giving you enough time to make them and gift them to your intended, followed by increasingly easier/quicker projects.

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