Radio Antennas in the Wild
Get the skinny on all types of antennas with this primer and radio antenna field guide.
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Print Smart, Breathe Easy — 3D Printer Emissions
Safety tips for dealing with 3D printer emissions from filament and resin printers in your makerspace.
What Cuts What? Lasering Different Materials
No laser cutter can do everything, but here’s a table of which materials the three most common types of lasers can handle.
Upskilling: An interview with Steph Piper
What maker skills do you have? What maker skills would you like to acquire? Steph Piper has been thinking about upskilling, and inspired by video games, she began to identify sets of skills as tiles that form trees. She created an online repository of maker skill trees, at: github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree Her insight is that upskilling is […]
Make:Cast – Problem Solving is #1
Sarah Boisvert on Workforce Training for Digital Fabrication Jobs Subscribe to Make:cast on Itunes or Google Podcasts. You can also find it on Spotify, Deezer, Podcast Addict, PodChaser and Spreaker. In Make: magazine Volume 75, in the article “Fabricating the Future of Work,” Sarah Boisvert writes: “Digital fabrication is preparing makers for engaging well-paying careers […]
Blacksmithing Essentials for the Beginner
Learn the basic concepts of blacksmithing.