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Linkbot Intuitive Modular Robots

Linkbot Intuitive Modular Robots

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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Robotics can be challenging for a beginner, but now modular robotic kits are available for educators and hobbyists that make learning intuitive and fun.

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Retro Blaster: Vector Weapon Kit

Retro Blaster: Vector Weapon Kit

By Sam Freeman

Sam Freeman

Raised in the galactic capital of Earth, Sam Freeman was destined to work for Make Labs - testing, designing, and breaking projects for MAKE.

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The Vector Weapon has been one of our most popular projects on our Maker Faire table. It makes a wide variety of gleefully retro space sounds, and it’s a good intermediate soldering project. You can put it in your own case, or get a rad one from the Shed.

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Micro UFO Quadcopter: A Quad for a Newbie

Micro UFO Quadcopter: A Quad for a Newbie

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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I’ve already got one of my son’s Christmas presents picked out: Micro UFO Quadcopter. But the truth is the copter isn’t just for him. It’s for me, too.

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