<!– 3D Printing –> By Goli Mohammadi, 2012/11/05 @ 4:39 pm Apparently even Dilbert‘s office just got a new 3D printer. Now you know it’s gone mainstream! Love his vision of what he would do with it. Dilbert should pick up a copy of our upcoming Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing, on newsstands November [...]

<!– Mechanics, Weapons –> By Sean Ragan, 2012/11/05 @ 5:11 pm OK, it doesn’t fire live ammunition, but it is “working,” in the sense that it’s an accurate 1:1 mechanical replica of the original: it can be cocked, rendered safe, loaded, cycled, field-stripped, and even fired, so long as the load is no stronger than [...]

<!– Electronics, Circuits –> By Gareth Branwyn, 2012/11/05 @ 5:27 pm We love Jeri Ellsworth’s electronics videos and have missed them of late (as she’s made the move from Oregon to Washington to work at Valve Software). She’s baaaaack! And with a cool, simple circuit for building a 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a single [...]

<!– Electronics –> By Mark Frauenfelder, 2012/11/05 @ 5:30 pm In this episode of the Make: Talk podcast I interviewed Joel Murphy. He’s an artist living in Brooklyn and owns a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designers. He teaches Physical Computing at Parsons the New School for Design, and he owns [...]

<!– Flight Projectiles, Drones, Maker Pro –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/11/05 @ 5:43 pm File this one under good timing. Last week, Wired’s Chris Anderson announced he’s leaving his editor-in-chief post to become 3D Robotics’ full-time CEO. Today, Chris announced that his company secured $5 million in funding. He said the money will allow 3DRobotics [...]

<!– Design, Food and Beverage, PIC –> By Adam Flaherty, 2012/11/05 @ 2:00 am Do you like your rainbow of flavor to be sorted by discrete wavelength? If so, then you’ll appreciate Brian Engenriether‘s Skittles Sorting Machine 2. Using an IR LED and phototransistor to determine the appropriate color, a BASIC Stamp 2 controls three [...]

<!– Announcements, Electronics –> By Brian Jepson, 2012/11/05 @ 6:00 am On Thursday, November 8, 2012, O’Reilly is presenting a free webcast with Simon Monk, author of Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer: If you like making things, then you will love .NET Gadgeteer. You can create many interesting projects by just plugging together components and [...]

<!– Citizen Science, General –> By David Lang, 2012/11/04 @ 10:08 am Science Hack Day is underway here in San Francisco.  It’s a mix of familiar maker faces along with professional and citizen scientists. The agenda and hacking for the 2-Day event looks to span all areas of science, from hacking data from the Large [...]

<!– Electronics –> By John Baichtal, 2012/11/02 @ 11:00 am Michael Ciuffo’s clever QR Clock generates each of the 1,440 daily QR codes on the fly, rather than referencing a array of pre-configured codes. His boards feature a built-in ATMega328. [T]his clock points out the ultimate irony of QR codes which is that they are [...]

<!– 3D Printing, Fabrication, Maker Pro, Makers, Open source hardware –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/11/02 @ 1:27 pm Zach “Hoeken” Smith in China as seen on his blog, blog.zachhoeken.com. Zach “Hoeken” Smith is a co-founder of MakerBot, but he left the company 18 months ago and now calls Shenzhen, China home. In addition to pursuing [...]

<!– Drones, Flight Projectiles, Maker Pro, Open source hardware –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/11/02 @ 1:56 pm Chris Anderson, Wired’s outgoing editor-in-chief. I always wondered how Chris Anderson could manage to serve as editor-in-chief of Wired and run 3D Robotics, a drone company he founded. With today’s announcement, he’ll now focus exclusively on the drone [...]

<!– 3D Printing, Desktop Manufacturing –> By Stett Holbrook, 2012/11/02 @ 3:08 pm MAKE’s Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing hits newsstands on Nov. 20. Join the editors of MAKE live, this coming Monday, Nov. 5 at 2pm PST and 5pm EST. During the Google+ Hangout on Air, we’ll be talking about the issue and the [...]