What is “Ask an engineer”? From the electronics enthusiast to the professional community – “Ask an Engineer” has a little bit of everything for everyone. If you’re a beginner, or a seasoned engineer – stop in and see what we’re...

SHOW AND TELL – LIVE 8/16/17 (video). Want to join the #showandtell Here’s how and video.

NEW REVISION – Particle Asset Tracker – 2G Locate your stuff! The Asset Tracker Kit from Particle contains all of the pieces you need to build a GSM + GPS location tracker for your most prized possessions. In addition to...

Check out this new tutorial from Erin St. Blaine:  Create a stunning border in your floor or walkway using Dotstar LEDs and colored glass pebbles.   Control the lights using Circuit Playground, and add color modes to suit your home...

NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit TPL5111 Low Power Timer Breakout With some development boards, low power usage is an afterthought. Especially when price and usability are the main selling points. So what should you do when it’s time to turn around...

EVENT: FREE FLOSS Desktops Conference / Meet-up Learn about our free STEM program (FLOSS Desktops for Kids) from teachers and students in this three hour conference/meet-up: Quick overview: What: Introduction to the FLOSS Desktops for Kids program and how to...

AWE me’s DIY Prop Shop focuses on making replica props for less than $50. Since the series focuses on using inexpensive materials and regularly reviews basic techniques, it’s a good one for beginning cosplayers and makers to binge. Their recent...

Check out Jonathan Odom’s 3D printed animatronic puppet rendition of Baby Bastion from Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch. 3D Printed Animatronic Puppet Meet Baby Bastion, the Overwatch inspired animatronic puppet! There’s a huge variety of DIY robot projects on the internet, but...

Zap away ads using an ad-blocking custom DNS mini server We upgraded our Pi Zero Pi Hole with a little display, that makes setting up clients easy and also gives you some nifty stats! A long time ago we made...

NEW REVISION – Resistive Touch screen – 3.7″ Diagonal Want to poke at your projects? This resistive touch screen can be used with a stylus or fingertip and is easy to use with a microcontroller. You can put it over...

Consistently ranked as home to one of the world’s top engineering programs, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is often seen as a model for its undergraduate education programs and research output. However, the school leads in another important way: the...

Alex from Super Make Something sent in his latest project: Robotic Drawing Machine (Arduino, 3D Printing, CAD, PCB Design, Programming, Stepper Motors) Hello! My name is Alex and I make DIY projects for my YouTube channel “Super Make Something.” I...

COMING SOON – Adafruit Feather nRF52 Pro with myNewt Bootloader – nRF52832 The Adafruit Feather nRF52 Pro is our latest Bluetooth Low Energy board for advanced projects and users who want to use a fully open source Bluetooth Low Energy...

From Chris Schmitz on vimeo: Here’s everything working together. All of the components are stitched in and the sketch for listening to the accelerometer to trigger the neopixels is working. See more on vimeo and GitHub Featured Adafruit Product! FLORA...

Fantastic episode from James the Bald Engineer introducing brushless DC motors – and all the possible ‘alphabet soup’ letters that go along with them, such as BLDC, ESC, UWV, and more! The first part of the tutorial looks inside of...

Via Wareable.com VR World deviates from the dark, classical theaters or techno motifs of other VR centers we have visited. The three-story, 20,000 square-foot space contains everything from a full bar to a terrace lounge with stylish, comfy furniture. The...

No 3D hangouts today. You can catch up on last week’s show if you haven’t watched it yet. We also have a playlist with all 100+ shows. We’ll be back next week.

Humans have long been fascinated with observations of and documenting eclipses in all their manifestations. The Morgan Library & Museum have an ancient tablet circa 300 BCE, inscribed in cuneiform (Akkadian) with the text below about a lunar eclipse. You...

Bjoern Friedetzky, known as Rebelproof on The Replica Prop Forum (RPF) boards, has almost completed his Mad Max: Fury Road Immortan Joe costume. He wanted to make it as screen accurate as he could. He said: This was a long,...

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Historians have had much to say about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s one-of-a-kind...

Via DeZeen IKEA has shared instructions for turning its rugs into luxurious fur capes, following revelations that Game of Thrones costume designers used the brand’s home accessories to dress their actors. The spoof instructions – designed for a fake product...

From au_chrismor on Hackster.io: I was inspired by Kitty Yeung’s pattern-matching dress, and I wanted to do something clever for my daughter’s school dance party. I also had a limited amount of time, and a ready-made dress to use. After...

Via Core77 We’re so accustomed to the design constraints imposed on vehicles by the need to accommodate engines and transmissions that we sometimes fail to see the possibilities when those mechanical elements are no longer required. That can’t be said...

Rosetta Stone by The British Museum on Sketchfab Check out this awesome model of the Rosetta Stone, if you have a 3d viewer like Google Cardboard you can see it in VR! Via My Modern Met: The Rosetta Stone is...

These sunglasses are definitely eye-catching, or perhaps a better description would be sun catching. A post on Digital Journal highlights a recent solar harvesting prototype by researchers at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany. The glasses already had me at solar,...