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That’s a Wrap!

Sean Michael Ragan — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:00:33 +0000

The lights are out, the doors are locked, the diet coke is all mopped up or washed away, and the curtain has come down on the eighth annual Bay Area Maker Faire.

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Autodesk, MakerBot Join Forces

Sean Michael Ragan — Sun, 19 May 2013 19:42:37 +0000

MakerBot and Autodesk, who are sharing a booth this weekend at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013, just announced a partnership deal involving the Replicator 2 and Autodesk's 123D suite. Folks who purchase subscriptions to Autodesk's 123D tools get a discount towards the purchase of a Rep2, and Autodesk has become an authorized reseller of the popular 3D printer. The "Autodesk edition" Replicator 2 also features custom face- and buildplates. Deets at Autodesk's 123D site, below.

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 is Open!

Sean Michael Ragan — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:26:33 +0000

Come one, come all. The original Maker Faire Bigtop has thrown open its flaps! Cue up the circuit-bent marching bands, switch on the robo-clowns, rev up the art cars. It’s time for Maker Faire!

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Bunnie’s Form 1 Printer Teardown

Sean Michael Ragan — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:37:31 +0000

Andrew "bunnie" Huang backed Formlabs' 2012 Kickstarter for the Form 1 liquid resin (SLA) printer and just scored a pre-release beta unit through his connect with Neoteny Labs.vAnd, naturally, the first thing he did was tear it apart.

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The Inside Angle on DIWire

Sean Michael Ragan — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:00:44 +0000

Pensa is a twelve-member NY-based design consultancy founded in 2005 by Marco Perry and Kathy Larchian. They’ve done product design work with major brands like OXO and Samsung mobile, and first appeared on our radar back in May of last year, when they first announced plans to develop a low-cost, […]

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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

Sean Michael Ragan — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:38:28 +0000

This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw...

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Skill Builder — CNC Panel Joinery

Sean Michael Ragan — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:40:26 +0000

A guide to making interlocking, self-aligning, and demountable joints in flat stock.

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HYREL 3D Printers

Sean Michael Ragan — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:52:12 +0000

Daniel Hutchinson of Alpharetta, GA, is the front man for Atlanta-based HYREL 3D, a startup launched in November through a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. The idea behind their HighlY-RELiable 3D printer design is to provide an open-platform fused-filament system that does not cost as much as "industrial" machines, but requires less assembly and maintenance time than kit-based machines.

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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

Sean Michael Ragan — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:30:02 +0000

This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw...

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Seventeen Sneaky Secret Hides

Sean Michael Ragan — Sat, 04 May 2013 18:35:18 +0000

To celebrate the publication of my little Door-Top Stash project in MAKE Vol 34, I've rounded up a pseudorandom smattering of some of my favorite secret-stash posts from our online archives. Some of these link to MAKE page, some like to outside content, and some (in a few cases where outside links have died) don't link anywhere, and are just included for inspiration. The sneaky state-of-the-art is always advancing—hopefully you'll see something here that drives you to new depths of deviousness!

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