We just got our author copies of 10 LED Projects for Geeks! Our friend John Baichtal shepherded this book into the world as its editor, getting contributions from a great set of folks. The book, published by No Starch Press,...

The Hess Triangle: A tiny private plot of land in NYC Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount A Fourier Synthesis Character Generator Sampling whale blows via drone The Colonels: In praise of the ordinary night heron The Land Before...

I’ve been meaning to post a review of Tips and Tales from the Workshop by our friend Gareth Branwyn, but every time I start, I get distracted by the book itself. I keep flipping through and learning new things or...

#plottertwitter Sharpie on T-shirt for the win!#mtbos #iteachmath pic.twitter.com/gYwj4cFArM — Mark Kaercher (@shskaercher) June 6, 2018 We’ve seen a bunch of posts about using AxiDraw for fabric lately! Thanks to @shskaercher and @jbalogh3 for the inspiration and design. Shirts for...

Editors Note: We previously posted about this on twitter. At the Electronics Flea Market in Silicon Valley, we recently picked up this vintage spiral bevel gear set. It’s still sealed up in its original 1950s US navy packaging. Let’s see...

Jonathan sent in pictures of these wooden signs he made with his AxiDraw. He shared some tips as well: Put plastic wrap over the surface to test font, spacing, and size. For polyurethane and lacquered finishes, if you make mistake...

The cyanometer, an antique instrument to measure blueness of the sky. (Here is how to make your own.) Make a Mini NeXT Raspberry Pi case Miss Flyer: A laser cut misprint to paper airplane converter Gravitational waves: The first six...

Matt published an Axidraw vinyl/paper cutter project on hackaday.io. He made a longer barrel for a vinyl cutter blade holder to fix it in his AxiDraw V3/A3 pen holder, and notes the settings he used for successful cutting of cardstock,...

Alex at Hackster.io posted an awesome build video for the Three Fives Kit!

Dynamic Müller-Lyer Illusion Could Venus have a bacterial infection? How the bones in your hand change as you grow up Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? Probing a simulated 6502 and evaluating it like a set of neurons A Sinclair...

For this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire we are excited to be collaborating with Eric Schlaepfer and Ken Shirriff. We’ll be bringing decapped chips like the MOS 6502, the 555 timer and 741 op-amp along with microscopes to let visitors...

We’ve written about the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market many times before. Make that many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many times before. It’s a great source of inspiration, beautiful objects and interesting conversations. We’re writing about it now...

Quick Sort explained by IDEA instructions Daytime fireworks are a thing. (Second example.) An air breathing electric motor for low earth orbit satellites Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes How two photographers captured the same millisecond in time 8-bit emergency...

It is lemon season here yet again! Given the quantity of fruit my Meyer lemon tree produces, I have many opportunities to remake my marmalade recipes with little adjustments and changes. This time, I added ginger. Quite a bit of...

The folks at Sac City Brews use an AxiDraw to create their tap list. The AxiDraw plots out the beer name, info and logo onto a piece of acrylic which gets mounted in the tap list above the bar. Best...

How Carob Traumatized a Generation How Christine Peterson coined the term ‘open source’ OpenSC2K: An open source remake of SimCity 2000 A deep dive into the history of the Automatic Pencil Sharpener Company (via @john_overholt) The ReCode Project is a...

On Monday, February 19, we’ll be celebrating Presidents Day at The Tech Museum in San Jose. Spend your Presidents Day with us! We’re bringing you even more hands-on science fun than usual. You’ll build straw rockets and design colorful climbing...

Lee at Sawdust and Solder is building a kids spaceship cockpit and used a Larson Scanner for one panel. I wanted to spread out the LEDs over a large arc to simulate the sweep of a radar screen. The idea...

Today we are releasing our newest set of “Download and Print” cards for Valentine’s day. This is our sixth year, and sixth set of cards: The 2013 set had six equation-heavy cards, the 2014 set was a set of six symbol-heavy cards, and the 2015 set included love,...

The Idiot’s Loop: Dropping a nuclear bomb with a backflip was a 1950’s US Air Force tactic. History of Philips’ Semiconductors in the 1950s Terry Gilliam reveals the secrets of Monty Python animation Vintage Computing for Trusted Radiation Measurements R.I.P....

We’re bringing the MOnSter 6502 and the Digi-Comp II to the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest February 10-11 at the Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington. Living Computers: Museum+Labs is an incredible museum! Bring your camera, bring your children, and...

Matt DesLauriers published a two-part blog post, Pen Plotter Art & Algorithms exploring his JavaScript workflow with AxiDraw and generative art. Unlike a typical printer, a plotter produces prints with a strangely human quality: occasional imperfections arise as the pen...

Computing a world of snowflakes 6 Animatronic Eye Mechanisms You Can Download and 3D Print Parafilm: What is this thing? (YouTube) The colorful modern history of ancient crookneck watermelons The Boldport Club is a monthly electronic kit subscription The mathematics...

A couple of creative artists, Makio&Floz, are offering custom plotted portraits, drawn by their AxiDraw, playfully named Jojo the robot. Makio&Floz is a duo working on digital based projects. Without limiting themselves to a virtual space or a physical one,...

Last year while attending FIRST robotics competitions with the Firebots, I had the privilege of serving as a judge at both the Central Valley Regional and the Sacramento Regional. Judging gives an opportunity to get to know the folks involved...