We’re in the process of moving into a nicer, bigger space, still in Sunnyvale, California. Our new shop location is 1285 Forgewood Avenue, and we’ll be closed on Monday, August 21 as part of the move. We will be inviting you...

Vanessa Julia Carpenter from FabLabRUC did a workshop at FabCafe Tokyo with Kintsugi Artist Kurosawa using mended dishes as conductors in circuits. The precious metals used to repair the dishes are used to trigger sound or light, encouraging the participants to...

We’re bringing the MOnSter 6502 to the Vintage Computer Festival this weekend, August 5-6 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. VCF West is for everyone! Computer geeks, families/children, students, collectors, IT professionals, curious onlookers…

Clever street art by Tom Bob How to make PCB lapel pins Beautiful photos of a bicycle headbadge collection History of the Utah Teapot Should robot artists be given copyright protection? Inside Intel’s first product: the 3101 RAM chip held...

Our friend Arjan van der Meij made this charming musical instrument from a signal generator, a servo motor, an Arduino and a processing program. He wrote an instructable for it so you can build one, too. He also wrote about...

I wrote a tutorial on generating fractals with L-systems: https://t.co/BiBXgYHw59. Here's my AxiDraw plotting a tree. pic.twitter.com/JG3UkMZORz — Paul Butler (@paulgb) July 9, 2017 Paul Butler wrote a tutorial on Fractal Generation with L-Systems and posted some example code with...

Beautiful photos of playground equipment in Japan by photographer Kito Fujio The Earth Science Picture of the Day Sculptural synthesizers by Eirik Brandal Which real words are valid CSS hex colors? Choose your own adventure maps Lingua Franca : Six...

The new version of the #MOnSter6502 is up and running! pic.twitter.com/Mlz3Tidje2 — Evil Mad Scientist (@EMSL) June 16, 2017 The second revision of the MOnSter 6502 is here, working, and blinkier than ever with nearly twice as many LEDs!

It has come to our attention recently that there is reason to question the Arduino team’s commitments to its community and to open source hardware. Dale Dougherty posted on the Make blog about Arduino’s apparent lack of progress toward their...

The Annotated Build It Yourself Science Laboratory is featured on Cool Tools today! This kind of bootstrapping science education is perfect for science museums, teaching labs, camps, and incredibly self-motivated kids.

A post shared by povevolving (@povevolving) on Jun 4, 2017 at 8:20pm PDT povevolving has been sharing great stuff they’ve been doing with their AxiDraw on instagram. I particularly love this plot done directly onto a dress. A post shared...

Ross wrote in to share his project: I saw the 555 footstool on your site a while back, and wanted to build one a bit larger that provided space for storage and also didn’t require CNC. Enclosed are photos of...

3D Scan to SVG to Plotter (by way of Blender) Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound effect chip A collection of resources for making Awesome Generative Art American energy use in one diagram Video from 27c3: Reverse Engineering the...

We’ve been working on the MOnSter 6502 project for quite some time. We first introduced it last year, and since then we have brought it up to the stage of successfully running programs in assembly, BASIC, and Forth. We have...

We’ll be at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, May 19-21 with Tube Time and the  MOnSter 6502 project. We’ll hope to see you there!

Chronophotographs Capture Birds in Flight Watch 118 Bird Species Migrate Across a Map of the Western Hemisphere A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation Original Macintosh Lode Runner, in your browser Laser drawing stroboscopic patterns on an...

The second annual Robot Art contest Is in its final lap: The Robot Art 2017 competition will be running between now and May 15th when more than $100,000 in awards will be given to the top painting robots. Winners will...

HEXceramic posted examples of using StippleGen to create lasered molds for making ceramic tiles. Very cool!

Dave wrote in about the EggBot: My daughter wanted to tell you that she loves your creation. The other day she told me that she is more sciencey than girly, and I told her that she could be both. I...

morejpeg: Another microservice that you didn’t know you needed The Backyard Scientist: Pouring Molten salt into Water (YouTube) Did Voyager 1 capture an image of Enceladus’ plumes erupting? If the moon were one pixel Digital Clock in Conway’s Game of Life...

The folks at Mouse-Sensitivity.com used the AxiDraw to do a mouse sensor accuracy test, comparing the Logitech G900, G700s, and G9X (and a cheap HP they had on hand). The resulting visualization of the sensor information is fascinating!

Boris Karloff’s Guacamole Recipe Can you fake a TV Remote control with paper and a lighter? Probably not. EL wire Nixie Tube CatterPlots: Scatter plots, with cats as points Convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad footprints Double pendulum with UV...

Today we are releasing our newest set of “Download and Print” cards for Valentine’s day. This is our fifth year, and fifth 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,...

Cool drafting tools: the Keuffel & Esser Trammel Ellipsograph. (See also: 507 movements.) Just Add Water: The history of Sea Monkeys, dark side and all. Magica: A beautiful solenoid coil driven wooden clock An introductory servo control project with ROS,...

We just got a copy of the December 2016 Funk Amateur, a German ham radio and electronics magazine. There’s a two page spread on our ATmegaXX8 Target Boards with examples of how to use them for various circuit and projects.