Make: Daily In This Issue... The Smart Citizen Kit Open Environmental Monitoring Platform Reasons to Build a Prototype SparkTruck: An Encore Maker Journey Greetings From The Fourth Maker Faire North Carolina Maker Pro Newsletter #17 Fender Jazzmaster-Style Guitar, Built from Scratch Makers in Space More Recent Articles The Smart Citizen Kit Open Environmental Monitoring Platform There’s still time to get in on the launch of the Smart Citizen sensor and data platform; their fully-funded Kickstarter ends on Sunday. The Smart Citizen Kit looks to be one of the more polished efforts at building a distributed sensing and data aggregation platform. The kit is a microcontroller […] Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Reasons to Build a Prototype About 70 campers showed up today at the offices of OATV for Hardware Summer Camp, organized by Nick Pinkston, Renee DiResta and Adam Ellsworth. I kicked off the Saturday session with a short talk, remarking that the maker movement has been built around a prototyping revolution more than a manufacturing […] Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • SparkTruck: An Encore Maker Journey This summer, SparkTruck is gearing up for its second road trip across the country, bringing hands-on learning back to to schools in their mobile makerspace. Want them to visit your town? Fill out an "Arrange a Visit" form now until June 18! Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Greetings From The Fourth Maker Faire North Carolina Brian Jepson and Nick Normal report from the Maker Faire North Carolina. In its fourth year, it's bigger and better than ever. Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Maker Pro Newsletter #17 "EEG sensing is ready for prime time." From the editors of MAKE magazine, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, innovators, along with technology and market trends. Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Fender Jazzmaster-Style Guitar, Built from Scratch This gorgeous homemade electric guitar, modeled after the Fender Jazzmaster, was made from a 2" slab of alder wood. From there, the maker planed, jigsawed, wired, sanded, sealed, primed, lacquered, buffed, and copper shielded their way to the finished pale green guitar, which is quite handsome. After going through the whole painstaking process, the maker comments at the end: "Whew.... I kind of want to build another.... Am I a sadist?" Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Makers in Space Planetary Resources is Kickstarting a project to send a satellite into orbit that backers will be able to direct themselves. Read the full article on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Maker Mobile Workshop on Wheels Three-Dimensional Thinker? MAKE Wants You!

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