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May 18, 2023 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Jar of Flies [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: capturing lightning in a bottle, a finger-tapping automaton, making your perfect sketchbook, tough relays, hand-wavey details, and turning a logo into an animated sculpture.

+Show Notes [Maker Update Ep.333]+

=Project of the Week=

0:31
Firefly Lantern by Electroboom
https://youtu.be/iJGPMMMn8VU

=More Projects=

2:57
Typing Automaton by Uri Turchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA-KpGYG83E

3:49
LED Wave Array LuLabs
https://lulabs.net/electronics/ledwave/

4:30
Turning a Logo into an Animated Sculpture by JBV Creative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKzX03VIRgs

=Tips & Tools=

5:31
Making Sketchbooks by Eric Strebel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtqqxQ9RcBE

6:14
Tough Relay by Digital Loggers
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5718

6:46
Fantastic Fabrics by Kitty Yeung, Jen Colstillo and bleeptrack
https://makezine.com/projects/design-your-own-fantastic-fabrics/

7:36
Keep Your Clamps Oiled by Jimmy Diresta
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2TRLtC_RCfY

=Digi-Key Spotlight=

8:00
What is Matter? by Shawn Hymel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIEfih9bl0

March 2, 2023 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Segment Surf [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: a maritime matrix, an LED katana, a Nerf dart that fires itself, and a floppy disc with its own file browser.

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March 29, 2019 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I Want My Lissajous TV [Maker Update #117]

This week on Maker Update, stop motion with Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA’s $99 AI board, Game Burgers, Lissajous Jukebox, StreetWriter, Ping Pong clock, and a laser cut turntable cabinet.

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March 28, 2018 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Alternative Controller [Maker Update #76]

This week on Maker Update, a MIDI compatible music box, alternative controller indie games at GDC, an Arduino for your knife, controlling your computer with zombie heads, free game developer software, and Hackspace issue 5. This week’s Cool Tool is the Makey Makey Kit.

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March 27, 2018 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Makers of Alt.CTRL.GDC 2018

The annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco is a wonderfully outrageous, high tech fantasy land where corporations like Microsoft, Facebook, Sony and Google, hold court with their latest zombie-blasting simulators and VR headsets. But it has a secret.

Off in the back (technically in a whole separate building), away from the buzz and hustle of the main show floor, is a small cluster of 20 curated, one-of-a-kind games under a banner labeled “alt.ctrl”. Here, the creators of these games encourage people to come over and play their project. They call themselves Developers, but I see them as Makers like myself. People who take their fun from mixing equal parts Art and Engineering. 

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June 7, 2017 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Zoetrope Fidget Spinner [Maker Update #37]

This week on Maker Update, a zoetrope and a fidget spinner make a baby, an SLS printer from Formlabs, a Raspberry Pi weather chamber, component carnage, and a tiny OLED Pi screen. Our featured Cool Tool is the Hakko FX-901 cordless soldering iron

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