Looking for inspiration for your Halloween projects? Need ideas for snacks, costumes or decor? Not sure what to do with your pumpkins this year? Head over to the Halloween Project Archives for a list of our projects over the years. Halloween is...

Pricing Niche Products An illustrated guide to San Francisco’s hidden restaurants Area woman heads to town and impulse-buys entire bookstore. Sea urchins have teeth that sharpen themselves Prop designers wax nostalgic on the hardest props of their careers We could...

Mark from MN wrote in to say: I persuaded my school district’s community foundation to buy an AxiDraw for me to use with my high school geometry students. It’s SO GREAT! These kiddos are seeing their 2D creations come to...

Our friend Allie has a regular feature on her channel Tech-nic-Allie Speaking called Trumpet Case Tuesday where she highlights someone and puts their sticker on her trumpet case, and today, it’s us! She talks about EggBot, WaterColorBot, and AxiDraw, which...

I’ve been using my Plum Chutney recipe for years and enjoying every batch. Our own plum tree is now mature and producing lots of wonderful fruit each year, so I have had many opportunities to reproduce and refine my recipe....

Corey Haber just posted a clip of his AxiDraw finishing its first painting: Finished my first plotter painting using a custom 3D printed plotter paintbrush. 15 layers of color and 57,000 dots using @Liquitex acrylic paint. #plottertwitter #axidraw @EMSL #processing...

Casting Glass from 3D Printed Molds Documentation on data storage and file formats Cats with Cameras Svg2Shenzhen: An Inkscape extension for exporting artwork as PCB graphics The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers. Sparktrola...

Make Magazine has been running a great series of maker spotlights and profiles of maker businesses. We were excited to be interviewed for a profile ourselves, and you can read it on the Make blog now!

During our Back to School Sale, use checkout coupon code SCHOOL to save 10% at the Evil Mad Scientist shop. Everything is included in the sale, from LEDs and soldering kits to AxiDraw and accessories. Sale runs through Saturday, August...

We love any excuse to create science themed food, and we had a blast brainstorming our contribution to “Astro-Gastro” contest at the annual member meeting at the Fremont Peak Observatory. We settled on some of the things we love to...

Michael Fogleman is an active member of the plotter art community. His twitter feed often contains either new art, or links to new tools that he has made. He has created and shared some incredible resources, including a wide variety...

Vincent Pidone is an artist particularly interested in Moire patterns, making the AxiDraw a tool well suited to him. You can find him on instagram, and he has a show opening this week. I have a show of my recent...

The Punjabi truck stops of America Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer NeverSSL: A surprisingly useful non-SSL web site Crashed plane located in a pub Doc Pop hired writers and artists on Fiverr to play a game of telephone...

For the past couple of years we have been working towards a public launch of the MOnSter 6502, our working transistor-scale replica of the famous MOS 6502 microprocessor. One of the biggest pieces of the puzzle has been how to...

Our friend and collaborator Eric Schlaepfer has been posting closeup photos of cross sections of familiar components in his twitter stream and they were recently highlighted in IEEE Spectrum. The photos are both beautiful and educational.

Technical support can be a challenge, and often a successful outcome is one where you don’t hear back because everything is working. Sometimes, though, you get an extra special confirmation that you’ve fixed the issue. Thank you to Nick Z....

I’m the subject of today’s issue of the What’s in my bag? newsletter! I enjoy this newsletter, which peeks into the kinds of things people carry around and use on a regular basis.

We are pleased to announce a major revision for the EggBot software with several significant improvements. It is now updated to support Inkscape 0.92. We have also streamlined the EggBot menu within Inkscape and updated the example set. We have...

During our Summer Sale, use checkout coupon code SUMMER to save 10% storewide. Save on popular items like the AxiDraw SE/A3, on soldering kits, EggBot, and everything else too! It’s a great time to get a shiny new AxiDraw, check...

How to make a faux-neon sign with EL wire What can you learn from a school of fossilized fish? First ever solar eclipse film brought back to life Open source, 3D-printed Croissant Machine (well, dough sheeter) Babylonians Were Using Geometry...

One of the features in our new Hershey Text v 3.0 software is the ability to extend it with new fonts. One company, Quantum Enterprises, is already selling high quality stroke fonts that are compatible with the new Hershey Text, and ideal...

Following the release of our new AxiDraw software this week, we are pleased to announce the release of two additional software components that greatly extend the capability of the machine. The AxiDraw software is now available in two alternate versions that...

Some years ago we wrote a neat little Inkscape extension called Hershey Text. Hershey text could take a little bit of text that you would type and render it into stroke fonts, also known as engraving fonts. We are very...

We’re pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the AxiDraw software, 2.5. which includes a number of frequently-requested features that we’ve been working on over the last year. An expanded user guide Perhaps foremost, we have updated...

Sash Zats is a designer and generative artist working with AxiDraw. You can find him on instagram and twitter. One of the things about Sash’s work that I enjoy is his choices of materials. He often uses bold papers and...