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Broken Stuffed Animals Get “Surgery” to Teach Kids About Organ Donors

Broken Stuffed Animals Get “Surgery” to Teach Kids About Organ Donors

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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Of the 14,000 people in Japan who need transplants, 300 receive them each year. To inspire organ donors, Second Life Toys is using plushies.

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The Japanese Art of Recognizing Beauty in Broken Things

The Japanese Art of Recognizing Beauty in Broken Things

By Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

Sophia is the managing editor of the Make: blog. When she’s not greasing editorial gears, she likes to run, ride, climb, and lift things, and make lo-tech goods like zines, desserts, and altered clothing. @sophiuhcamille

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In Japan, craftsmen practice the ancient art of kintsugi, or “golden joinery,” which is a method of restoring a broken object with lacquer.

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You Don’t Have to Like Dolls to Enjoy This Kokeshi Doll-Making Video

You Don’t Have to Like Dolls to Enjoy This Kokeshi Doll-Making Video

By Nicole Smith

Nicole Smith

Nicole is a former Editorial Intern at Make: She is a long time maker and previously worked for Instructables.com (Penolopy Bulnick). Every day she is inspired by something new and wishes there was more hours in the day to make!

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Yasuo Okazaki is an amazing woodworker that makes naruko kokeshi dolls, which he hypnotizingly shapes and paints while they spin on a lathe.

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Delicate Resin Flowers Bloom with This Unusual Technique

Delicate Resin Flowers Bloom with This Unusual Technique

By Nicole Smith

Nicole Smith

Nicole is a former Editorial Intern at Make: She is a long time maker and previously worked for Instructables.com (Penolopy Bulnick). Every day she is inspired by something new and wishes there was more hours in the day to make!

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These beautiful flowers, made by artist Sakae, appear to be made of glass, but they are actually wire dipped in liquid synthetic resin.

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Everything We Know About the Upcoming USA vs Japan Giant Robot Battle

Everything We Know About the Upcoming USA vs Japan Giant Robot Battle

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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The creators of Megabots have come forward to challenge Japan to the fight of the century: a giant robot battle.

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Reinventing Disposable Tableware

Reinventing Disposable Tableware

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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The fate of single use table ware, paper plates and cups, is predictable. They go in the garbage, sometimes if we’re lucky, they’re recycled or composted. But what if we replaced the paper made from wood pulp with rapidly grown bamboo and reed, along with bagasse—waste left over after extracting juice from sugar cane, and normally burnt—you’d get something that looks a little different. Especially if you give the whole idea some thought.

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