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Maker Pro News: Lily Robotics Crashes, HAX Heats Up, and More

Maker Pro News: Lily Robotics Crashes, HAX Heats Up, and More

Lily Robotics’ “follow me” -style drone doesn’t deliver, how one maker built a DIY Mars rover that blew away the competition, and more.

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From Aerospace to Weaving, Houston Mini Maker Faire Is an Inventors’ Paradise

From Aerospace to Weaving, Houston Mini Maker Faire Is an Inventors’ Paradise

Houston Mini Maker Faire attendees had a chance to create scientific creatures, assemble a clock, take a peek through augmented reality, and much more.

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Thomas Edison Honored in Shinto Ritual

Thomas Edison Honored in Shinto Ritual

My friend, and HacDC cohort, Katie Bechtold, who’s been living in Japan of late, posted this item to her Flickr photostream: Ema are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes. Thomas Edison used bamboo from the area around this shrine as a filament for his first light bulbs, and nowadays […]

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Easy-thread sewing needle

Easy-thread sewing needle

You know, as long as human beings have been squinting and poking at the tiny eyes of sewing needles, it’s pretty amazing that it’s taken so long for some clever inventor to address the problem. These spiral eye sewing needles are available direct from their inventor, Pam Turner of Minnesota. I’ve never used one, but the user feedback I hear echoing through the tubes is uniformly positive.

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