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March 20, 2025 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Keys to Success [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: more keys than a janitor’s keyring, fluffy cat buts for the win, a benchy in a bottle, and a really cool hinge.

+Show Notes [Maker Update Ep.425]+

=Project of the Week=

A Keyboard with Ten Hundred Keys by Attoparsec 0:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC-24QeoQu4

=News=

Alt.ctrl.GDC 2025 2:41
https://gdconf.com/alt-ctrl-gdc

=More Projects=

Benchy in a Bottle by Derailed3D 3:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CanhlsV40Qw

DIY Laser Mic by Something About Science 4:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVi8AjG4OY

=Tips & Tools=

Workbench Upgrades from Izzy Swan 5:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCG1EV1D40

Clever Hinge by Laura Kampf 5:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2cpPN0cE0

Making Thrift Store Finds Less Ugly by Rachel Maksy 6:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbWm_VoZumo

Disney Imagineering BTS with Cleo Abram 7:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enevSuDgf3U

=DigiKey Spotlight=

Circuit Breaker Basics 7:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HujFUqayORc

February 1, 2024 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tumbling Towards Tea Time [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: making tea the hard way, printing with molten metal, a nubbin for your lights, 1D Pacman, and wigs that listen.

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October 12, 2023 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Prime Time [Maker Update]

This week on Maker Update: Bob’s bobble head, machine learning for quirky droids, a laptop with a side of soldering iron, and an easy recipe for haunted mirrors.

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October 7, 2019 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: Interviews, News, Tips Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Restoring Oakland’s 1956 Wonder-Go-Round

On this blog, I get the chance to explore my love of how people create and invent using new technology. In many ways, Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California runs completely against the theme of this blog. It is one of the earliest theme parks in the United States, seemingly frozen in time for generations, and what little technology it has is about as analog as it gets.

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January 3, 2019 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

When in Dome [Maker Update #106]

This week on Maker Update, an interactive geodesic dome, wire bending animatronics, an ornament printing ornament, motion machines, an eye tracking eye, a unique wire straightener, and a closer look at different types of E6000.

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September 6, 2017 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Talking Tiki [Maker Update #50]

This week on Maker Update, an enchanted talking tiki totem pole, my trip to OSH Park and Metrix Makerspace, a retro lightbox, and why you need flush cutters. This week’s Cool Tool is the Hakko CHP-170 Flush Cutter.

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