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How-To: Hardware Store Sand Pendulum

How-To: Hardware Store Sand Pendulum

MAKE regular David Prutchi shows how his ten-year-old daughter and he remade an expensive “designer” sand pendulum using hardware-store components.

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Solar Sinter Project: 3D Printing with Sunlight and Sand

I’m absolutely amazed by Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter Project, a 3D printer that uses the sun for power and sand as its raw material: In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this […]

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