2012/11/02

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In This Issue...

The Queen of Caulk
Build a Basic Infrared Motion Alarm with Weekend Projects
Remarkably Wee Tool Chest
Bored Beagle/BeagleBoard
Fort Worth Makerspace Continues to Organize
New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Mini R05
November is Paper Month!
Buy Electronic Kits, Help HackerMoms
Peek Inside the Microsoft Surface Tablet
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The Queen of Caulk

In her studio overlooking the Aar, de Senna buttoned up her lab coat, donned her latex gloves and face mask, and spent the next three full months clocking about 800 hours working on her "I Love Caulk Frosting" series.

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Build a Basic Infrared Motion Alarm with Weekend Projects

Build a motion-sensing alarm by combining a few common components: an Arduino, a PIR sensor, a piezo buzzer, and a breadboard. All you need is some jumper wire to connect them all, and the software to run it.

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Remarkably Wee Tool Chest

"Robertson's tool chest contains all the same tools that were found in the original. All the tools work, even the plane's tote (handle) is set a scale 1/8″ to one side as the original. The saw has 160 teeth to the inch. Robinson says that the hardest tool to make was the folding rule with 5 leaf hinge. It is about .030″ thick and hand engraved on boxwood. Things like the shears and dividers also have nice little joints..."

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Bored Beagle/BeagleBoard

We made this is in response to a quip by MAKE founder Dale Dougherty, when he saw Marketing Coordinator Meg Mason's beagle, Bella, looking… well, bored.

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Fort Worth Makerspace Continues to Organize

One of the founders of Fort Worth Makerspace, Robert Bradbury, wrote in to share their latest efforts:

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New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Mini R05

Arduino recently updated their small form-factor Arduino Mini and it's now shipping from the Maker Shed. The Arduino Mini R05 is based on the same ATmega 328 processor as the Arduino Uno, but measures a scant 1.25"x0.73" making it perfect for breadboards and embedded applications.

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November is Paper Month!

So long, October! Onward, now, into the eleventh month of our 2012 "Year of Materials" with a focus on paper. "Paper," for those of you twelve and under, is a generally inexpensive, flexible, thin, sheet-like material made by pressing together moist fibers—commonly derived from plants—and allowing them to dry. "Plants" are living organisms, commonly green in color, with cellulose-containing cell walls, obtaining most of their energy through photosynth...

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Buy Electronic Kits, Help HackerMoms

Chris “Akiba” Wang of Freaklabs and Tokyo Hackerspace is the brother of Mothership HackerMoms co-founder Sho Sho Smith, and he’s offering a couple of cool kits from his online store to support HackerMoms’ Kickstarter campaign. All proceeds will go to the moms! The first kit is the FabTile, a daisy-chainable [...]

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Peek Inside the Microsoft Surface Tablet

The folks over at iFixit go the extra mile to bring you the Microsoft Surface Tablet Teardown. Not your average piece of hardware, the Microsoft Surface is a slim entry into the already bloated tablet market--though a release that was eagerly anticipated and met with great enthusiasm. Getting inside the svelte confines of Surface enclosure proved to be and arduous task deftly performed by iFixIt's crack team of teardown experts.