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MAKE In This Issue... BLE Shields in the Maker Shed: One-Tap Wireless Between Arduino and Cell Phones Paper Plate Mandala MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup Maker Faire Tokyo 2012: Day Two Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Raspberry Pi More Recent Articles BLE Shields in the Maker Shed: One-Tap Wireless Between Arduino and Cell Phones Maker Shed is now carrying RedBearLab's Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Shield. It's an inexpensive, simple, and fun way to get Arduino talking to an iPhone, iPad, or even some Macs... and probably a few Android devices as well. True to its name, BLE is low power, and it's also easy. Check out the walkthrough in the second half of this post: with a few clicks (or taps) I got my iPad and Arduino talking the universal language of blinkenlights! Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Paper Plate Mandala As a young sculptor fresh from art school, Wendy Brackman struggled with the problem of "selling out." In the video, above, she talks about her decision to become a party entertainer. Her act involves spontaneous sculpture of weird party hats cut by hand, from paper plates, using scissors, and joined together with staples. That was it. In need of a broader color palette, she began painting the plates with acrylic house paint before cutting them up, and as her act developed and began to take off, eventually graduated to custom-printed and die-cut cardstock blanks, instead of plates. Eventually... Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw... Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Maker Faire Tokyo 2012: Day Two Images from the second day of Maker Faire Tokyo 2012 by Ian Lesnet of Dangerous Prototypes. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Raspberry Pi As a very small and inexpensive computer, the Raspberry Pi is sure to find its way into tons of projects over the coming months. To help those projects come to fruition, here are a few awesome Raspberry Pi-related gift ideas for your favorite maker this holiday season. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Maker Faire Tokyo 2012: Day One First Drone Games In SF Today Holiday Gift Guide: 3D Printing Print Instagram Photos with Cheapstaprint

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