Maker’s knowledge is the unique understanding of a thing by the person who made it. Author and Make: contributor Bill Gurstelle talks about his books, his favorite projects and his ongoing study of the history of science and technology, where the concept of Maker’s Knowledge has been developed. It is knowledge only available to the […]
Quinn from BlondieHacks has just started a very interesting new project. She’s going to build a steam engine in her home shop. I don’t mean one of those tiny little desk toys, an actual functional (somewhat small) steam engine! This machine comes as a kit, but it isn’t the type of kit you may be […]
Imagine for a moment that you could hold a guide dog’s leash and feel the tug in the right direction, or notification to halt, all without having to care for a dog? That’s effectively what Blindbot produces. Born out of Makerspace ETH Zurich, the Blindbot is a project that uses optical recognition to guide folks […]
SparkFun’s Thing Plus – RP2040 is one of several new boards featuring the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s RP2040 microcontroller. The board breaks out most of the RP2040’s versatile I/O pins, while constraining itself to an Adafruit Feather’s form factor. The board is a good choice for building wearables and other devices powered by lithium-polymer batteries. The […]
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Myir’s MYS-8MMX is a single board computer built around NXP’s i.MX 8M Mini applications processor. This processor combines four ARM Cortex-A53 cores running at 1800 MHz with one ARM Cortex-M4 core running at 400 MHz. The hybrid design of the processor makes for a fairly powerful single board computer with the real-time I/O capabilities of […]
Build a custom notification circuit that lights up when your favorite maker uploads a new video.
