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May 25, 2018 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: Android, Announcement, business card, Cardboard Box, cassette deck, Circuit Python, Cricket, Dispenser, FPGA, Game, Handler 140, Hobart, Maker Faire Bay Area, Marblevator, MIG, MKR Vidor 4000, Power Racing Series, Razor Holder, Soap, stylophone, Tape deck, Thumb War, Try Studio, unicorn, Voronoi, Welder, welding

The Sick Unicorn [Maker Update #82]

This week on Maker Update, a soap-vomiting unicorn, two new boards from Arduino, a mini marblevator, a neopixel thumb war, pool noodle box bots, gendered razor holders, Lego pinball, an Android tape deck, a business card stylophone, Hobart’s entry level MIG welder, the Voronator, and the Adafruit Crickit. This week’s Cool Tool is the Hobart Handler 140 MIG Welder.

June 1, 2017 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: Project Tags: Build Diary, car, Design, DIY, Go Kart, Guide, Hello Kitty, Maker Faire, Power Racing Series, power wheels, Powerwheel, welding

Making the Kitty Grabs Back Electric Go Kart

If you’ve never seen or heard of Power Racing Series, start here and come back. It looks like crazy fun, right? People take a second-hand kid’s ride-on car (or build one from scratch), turn them into full-on electric go karts, and race each other for fun and glory.

And every year at Maker Faire Bay Area, I’ve watched these racers from the sidelines, laughing and cheering and thinking to myself that someday I might just build and race a car of my own.

Season 8 Power Racing Series Trailer from Power Racing Series on Vimeo.

At the 2016 Maker Faire, freshly unemployed from my year as Make magazine’s Project Editor, I decided there was never going to be a better time to try building my own car.

May 24, 2017 AUTHOR: Donald Bell CATEGORIES: News Tags: 3D Printing, Adafruit, Arduino, Autonomous, Beer, Bluetooth, Bre Pettis, Circuit Playground Express, CNC Mill, Contests, Cool Tools, Cooler, DIY, Electronics, Events, Hackaday, Hardware, iFixit, Inventing, MakeCode, Maker, Maker Faire, Maker Faire Bay Area 2017, Making, Microcontroller, Motorized, Other Machine Co., Power Racing Series, power wheels, Project, Robotics, Screwdriver, Soldering, Thingiverse, Tinkered

The Perfect Summer Robot [Maker Update #35]

This week on Maker Update, Kitty Grabs Gold, a robot beer cooler that follows you, the Circuit Playground Express, Adafruit and Microsoft, Other Machine Co. and Bre Pettis, Tinkercad Lego export, a great kit for gadget and toy hacking, and Maker Faires. Our featured Cool Tool is the iFixit Electronic Toolkit.