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MakeShift 19 deadline November 20th
blog.makezine.com - The deadline for submitting your solution to the MakeShift challenge from MAKE Volume 19 is fast approaching. Napping in an ocean kayak is generally never a good idea, but what would you do if you stuck view details...
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BEAM turns 20
blog.makezine.com - Speaking of BEAM robotics, this "school" of robotic architecture celebrated its 20th anniversary on Nov 10th. Twenty years ago, on that date, BEAM creator Mark Tilden built his first BEAMbot, the view details...
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Solar-powered miniball
blog.makezine.com - It may look like some futuristic Christmas tree ornament, but the miniball is part of the BEAM robot family of "rollers." A miniball is a motorized hamster ball that, sadly, you don't see in the wild view details...
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Photographing Spiral Jetty
blog.makezine.com - On a tight budget, documenting art that lives in a lake can be quite a challenge - especially when it's composed of "6,000 tons of rock and soil" - After considering nearly every possible way to document view details...
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Did he say "cheesemakers?"
blog.makezine.com - MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has his five minutes of creativity fire-starting with this recent presentation of "Blessed are the Cheesemakers," at Ignite Sebastopol II. Take a whiff of "the view details...
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Ask MAKE: Software for designing circuits
blog.makezine.com - Ask MAKE is a weekly column where we answer reader questions, like yours. Write them in to mattm@makezine.comor drop us a line on Twitter. We can't wait to tackle your conundrums! Bjorn writes view details...
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How-To: Custom wooden case for wireless charging mat
blog.makezine.com - Instructables user jvalal didn't like the look of his Powermat inductive device charging station, so he stripped out the guts and "re-skinned" it with a handmade wooden case. Read more | view details...
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Little Gem guitar amp
blog.makezine.com - Instructables user garagemonkeysan made this guitar amp from the popular Little Gem circuit, and put it in this useful little case with a cord reel on the back. Nice work! More: Flashback: The $5 Cracker view details...
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Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Science and Chemistry
blog.makezine.com - Those of you who know me will know I'm slightly biased toward chemistry, the discipline in which I'm trained, so it's hard for me to resist the natural temptation to focus on gifts that I might like view details...
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Visualizing sound with fire
blog.makezine.com - Wow, rad physics experiment in which FIRE is used to visualize sound. Don't try it at home, unless you're a physics teacher, in which case please show this to your students. [Thanks, Tyler!] view details...
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Sundial cannon fires at noon
blog.makezine.com - The glass is aligned to concentrate the sun's rays, lighting the cannon's fuse at high noon. More pics here, and a very detailed .pdf from the British Sundial Society on so-called "noon cannons" here. view details...
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