For Hanukkah this year, Ol Rappaport modified one of our Deluxe LED Menorah kits into a custom fluorescent acrylic body, substituted UV LEDs and used a USB power supply.

Paper Pulp 3D Printer Jackie Speier on Surviving Jonestown Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein London Tube Cutaways Why your mental map of the world is (probably) wrong Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of...

Gareth Branwyn posted an article on creating a gift basket for makers. It is full of awesome tools, including one of our favorites, the resistor lead forming tool. He’s also having a give-away for his example basket! To be eligible,...

Our BristleBot project is included in an article on toothbrush projects in the December issue of Hackspace Magazine.

We’re having a Thanksgiving Sale at Evil Mad Scientist! During our Thanksgiving Sale, use checkout coupon code THANKS to save 10% storewide. Save on popular items like the new AxiDraw SE/A3, on soldering kits, EggBot, and everything else too! Sale...

We’ve just added two new magnetic easels for AxiDraw to our lineup of AxiDraw accessories. They are sturdy work-holding tools that provide an alternative method of positioning paper or other workpieces for use with the AxiDraw. A heavy-duty alternative to...

The Supplyframe Magazine RealTalk Electronics was released at the Hackaday Superconference. It includes the article State of the Electronics Trade War which we contributed to. It’s awesome to be included in this group of authors!

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo has been using AxiDraw for circuit board etching experiments. He draws on copper clad boards with a Sharpie marker with the AxiDraw. Drawing is followed by a chemical bath. The marker is cleaned off of the remaining...

  Radio waves from our galaxy, the Milky Way, reflecting off the surface of the Moon. VFX Artist Reveals the Relative Sizes of Stars. The Forgotten Cold War Plan That Put a Ring of Copper Around the Earth. Two bits...

Last year before Halloween, Evan used an AxiDraw hidden in a box to animate a ouija board. He also posted a progress video from before adding the LEDs and doing the lettering and finishing. It turned out beautifully!

Our Three Fives Timer Kit is featured on the September 2018 cover of Servo Magazine. The article inside talks about the workings of the 555 and features a project using the Three Fives kit in a custom carrier board to...

Mike Jacobs added a pantograph to his AxiDraw to multiply its size range. Not content with that, he doubled it. Bigger!!! I extended the extension—now it’s a double pantograph!! The #axidraw #plotter draws ~8.5×12” out of the box. My pantograph...

I will be at Science Hack Day SF giving a lightning talk on Creative Off-Label Tool Use featuring some of the cool and unusual ways people are using AxiDraw and other tools we make. I’ll also have an AxiDraw in...

You’re invited to our annual open house! When: Saturday, November 10, 4 pm to 8 pm Where: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories 1285 Forgewood Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 You can see the MOnSter 6502 in action, check out an AxiDraw demonstration,...

Joanie LeMercier has been working on a project using invisible ink and different lighting schemes with the AxiDraw. He has posted a bunch of clips and pictures in his twitter stream with the heading “Invisible drawing.” pic.twitter.com/9xWEATkRic — ᴊᴏᴀɴɪᴇ ʟᴇᴍᴇʀᴄɪᴇʀ...

For Ada Lovelace Day this year, I would like to celebrate a group of young women in science, technology and making who are celebrating and uplifting each other. I had the privilege of seeing some of them at Maker Faire...

Halloween is nearly here! Still need ideas? Head over to the Halloween Project Archives for a list of our projects over the years. Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and … we’ve organized dozens of our Halloween projects into categories: costumes, pumpkins, decor and food.

Dynamic liquefaction sinks ships. A Homemade Engraving Pantograph (YouTube). Metal casting at home with lost PLA and green sand. How to pick up a cat like a pro (YouTube, via Boing Boing). Coffee Candy, Ranked. Mug-O-Matic: A different geometry of...

We’re back from Maker Faire New York, where we had an amazing time and took a bunch of pictures. Here are a few highlights: A wonderful Audrey II puppet. Flexible Arduino compatible “board”. The latest in maker materials experimentation. Digital...

We’re very pleased to introduce a new member of the AxiDraw family: the special edition AxiDraw SE/A3. This new model joins our existing models including the AxiDraw V3 and AxiDraw V3/A3. Like the AxiDraw V3/A3, the AxiDraw SE/A3 has an...

Spongenuity has been posting some wonderful portraits made with AxiDraw on instagram, including some CMYK ones like the one below. View this post on Instagram Portrait No.12 – Made with Axidraw, Steadtler Triplus Roller & Processing. Experiment with CMYK colour...

I’m excited to be hosting an “Ask a Maker!” panel at Maker Faire New York. The panel will be on Saturday, September 22 at 3:30 pm on the Make: Frontiers stage. My guests will include Jimmy DiResta, Sophy Wong, and...

After 15kg of wool and over 💯 hrs of knitting, I’m finally ready to fly to the UK. Now I just need to pack the entire universe into my suitcase! I’ll see you all soon 🤗 pic.twitter.com/orBWAmi3bW — Heart of...

We’ve just added two new accessories for the AxiDraw V3. The first of them, shown above, is the XL Pen Clip — something that we’ve had a number of requests for. The pen holder on the AxiDraw normally fits pens...

Inkstitch An embroidery extension for Inkscape Itty Bitty Sites Inkscape Circuit Symbols Disney releases digital models: an interesting data set including the Moana island. The Big Internet Math-Off A clever trick for seeing the orientation of SMD LEDs brow.sh: A...