Make: Daily In This Issue... Laser-Cut Book Covers Android-Arduino LED Strip Lights Now Serving: Consumer Class Holograms First Ever Dover Mini Maker Faire set for This Saturday Maker Hangar Episode 14: Flying How to Make a Mindstorms EV3 Console Cable Bridging the gap Between Google Glass and Raspberry Pi Asking the Boy Scouts of America to "Do Your Best"™ The Hunt for Junk Hackerspace Happenings Laser-Cut Book Covers Use this neat technique to make plywood flexible. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Android-Arduino LED Strip Lights Connect your smartphone to a microcontroller and make RGB LEDs glow any color with a finger swipe. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Now Serving: Consumer Class Holograms We live in a three-dimensional world, but only recently has the public had access to tools and technology that allow us to work and create things in 3D as well. Nowhere is this more evident than in the explosive growth of consumer class 3D printers, easy-to-use CAD software and 3D printing services. It's a cliché, but increasingly what we can create is only limited to what we can imagine. Now it's possible to print 3D models with plastic, resin, titanium, and more. Here's a new material to add to that list: photons.      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • First Ever Dover Mini Maker Faire set for This Saturday Organizers of the Aug. 24 Dover (N.H.) Mini Maker Faire were hoping to attract 30 makers to the first-time event. So they were thrilled when they got more than 50 makers from throughout New England. The event will be held at the Children's Museum of New Hampshire. The variety of makers and exhibits ranges far and wide. Here' a sampling of what's on to tap. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Maker Hangar Episode 14: Flying In Episode 14 of Maker Hangar, Lucas Weakley shows us how to fly the Maker Trainer! We learn how to throw the plane, how to practice flying in a strait line, how to turn, and many more things. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • How to Make a Mindstorms EV3 Console Cable The EV3 brick runs a version of Ångström Linux, so wouldn't it be awesome to be access the brick's serial console in order to debug the system during startup? The kernel outputs diagnostic data to the first sensor port. But how to get that data when the port in question uses Mindstorms' proprietary plug? Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Bridging the gap Between Google Glass and Raspberry Pi Deqing Sun posted a fantastic tutorial to Adafruit's Learning System on how to get Google Glass to communicate with Raspberry Pi. Smartly, he used a Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) server to pass data between the Pi and Glass. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Asking the Boy Scouts of America to "Do Your Best"™ The Hacker Scouts recently revealed that the Boy Scouts of America have demanded they stop calling themselves "scouts." Can the BSA do this? And even if they can, should they? Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • The Hunt for Junk Schools need a lot of stuff, but more often than not, they don't have a lot of money. Many of the materials you need for a lot of our favorite maker starter projects are likely already available around the homes of teachers and students. As part of our Back-to-School series, we share our golden checklist for scavenging for materials: the kinds of items that schools sometimes have on-hand for their "invention bin" or "idea box. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Hackerspace Happenings Are you a hackerspace member? We want to know about cool projects you are working on, or have completed, tools you’re using, fun stories about your space and its members, best practices you’d like to share with other spaces, etc. Say you build a new CNC mill–we want to hear […] Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •

 

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