Make: Daily In This Issue... Game of Drones Competitors Get Free Maker Faire Tickets! Tips and Tricks: Using Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 Do You Really Own Your 3D Printer? Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder! Fab Academy Students Challenged to Make Something BIG This R/C Plane Built from a Weed Whacker Actually Flies Should You Back A Kickstarter If The Team's Last Project Failed? I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened. New Project: Make a Combination Blackboard/Bulletin Board More Recent Articles Game of Drones Competitors Get Free Maker Faire Tickets! ATTENTION ALL DRONE PILOTS! Have you dreamed of drone combat? Would you like to see how your drone stacks up against the competition in a drone-to-drone fight? Now is your chance to join Game of Drones with Aerial Sports League’s Combat Games for this year’s 10th annual Maker Faire! Free admission, […] Read more on MAKE The post Game of Drones Competitors Get Free Maker Faire Tickets! appeared first on Make:.         Related Stories Madrid Joins the Spanish Maker Party Bots Enjoy Night Out at Robot Nightlife Event Tips and Tricks: Using Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Tips and Tricks: Using Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 Microsoft has officially opened access Windows 10 support for the Raspberry Pi 2 as of last night — coming through on their February announcement that they’d be offering the OS for the diminutive computer. With the installed release, you can now build and deploy apps from a Windows 10 PC running Visual […] Read more on MAKE The post Tips and Tricks: Using Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 appeared first on Make:.         Related Stories Microsoft and Arduino Announce Hardware Support Collaboration Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder! Sphero Patent Suggests Magnetic Head for BB-8 Droid   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Do You Really Own Your 3D Printer? Our good friend Michael Weinberg has written us to let us all know about one of the current fights to keep 3D printing free and open. Read below and add your voice to the current issue. The Time is Now to Help to Unlock 3D Printers The Copyright Office needs […] Read more on MAKE The post Do You Really Own Your 3D Printer? appeared first on Make:.          Comments So what does Make alum Bre Pettis have to say about how his ... by Chuck Stephens Related Stories Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder! I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened. Artist Creates Breathtaking 3D Printed Lamps   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder! Several years ago, Make: contributor Matt Griffin and I were hanging out and he started enthusiastically telling me about a technique for friction welding plastic that he’d just discovered. He had learned about it in a video from the awesome Fran Blanche (she of Frantone guitar pedals fame). I still […] Read more on MAKE The post Turn Your Dremel Tool into a Plastic Welder! appeared first on Make:.          Comments this. is. awesome. by shadowarachh I had one of those, too. I built both cars, but botched the ... by SmokeyBehr FANTASTIC IDEA! by Daymaker Lavon reminds me of the old 1975 Mattel Spinwelder toy! I had this set by screaminscott Related Stories MakerBot Teams With 3D Hubs, Offers Local Thingiverse Prints I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened. Microsoft and Arduino Announce Hardware Support Collaboration   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Fab Academy Students Challenged to Make Something BIG The Fab Academy program is a distributed educational model providing advanced digital fabrication instruction for students through a unique, hands-on curriculum and access to technological tools and resources. In this series, Erin, aka RobotGrrl is going to be sharing her experiences with the program as she progresses through the courses. […] Read more on MAKE The post Fab Academy Students Challenged to Make Something BIG appeared first on Make:.         Related Stories 3D Printed Shoes and the Coolest Hello World Boards You’ve Ever Seen at Fab Academy Triple Threat: BoXZY Puts Printing, Milling, and Lasers in One Small Box DiResta: Embossing a Journal   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • This R/C Plane Built from a Weed Whacker Actually Flies In the dark of night, one of the builders at UsaRCJets took the engine from a dead weed eater, parts from an old R/C banana boat plane, a 1′×2′ board and cobbled them together into this monstrous wacky hack. With no plans and only some beers to guide him, Billy […] Read more on MAKE The post This R/C Plane Built from a Weed Whacker Actually Flies appeared first on Make:.          Comments 1' x 2'. 1' x 2' would have been too heavy for that motor ;) by Charles Haase Related Stories Tiny R/C Tanks Converge on Bay Area for Battle Should You Back A Kickstarter If The Team’s Last Project Failed? New Project: Build a Remote-Control Venus Flytrap   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Should You Back A Kickstarter If The Team's Last Project Failed? A group of HAXLR8R graduates say that their modular electric vehicle development kit, FlexPV, will be able to turn almost anything into a motor vehicle. The Kickstarter campaign for FlexPV is replete with crisp graphics and slickly produced videos that show users clamping motor, battery, and control modules to a scooter, a bicycle, and even a […] Read more on MAKE The post Should You Back A Kickstarter If The Team's Last Project Failed? appeared first on Make:.          Comments They did just that, exactly as you suggest. I thought it was ... by Chris Anderson Fair enough! I think this is a really interesting question. ... by Jon_Christian I backed the Hex, and although it was indeed a disappointment I ... by Chris Anderson Related Stories Get to Know Onion Omega, a Tiny New Dev Board NASA Approves Kicksat’s Tiny DIY Satellites for Second Attempt 4-in-1 DrawBot is Arduino-Compatible, Doubles Kickstarter Goal   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened. Last week, Make:‘s Matt Stultz wrote about the new collaboration between MakerBot’s design community, Thingiverse, and the Amsterdam-based 3D Hubs. Eventually, the collaboration could bring together Thingiverse’s 700,000 designs with 3D Hubs’ 15,000 printer locations — though for now, the feature is available only for parts developed by a handful of pre-selected designers. In March, I used 3D Hubs to print […] Read more on MAKE The post I Used 3D Hubs to Print a Phone Dock. Here’s What Happened. appeared first on Make:.          Comments My library offers 3D printing for free (for now). by librarygirl92 Related Stories Spanish Company Scans and 3D Prints Every Resident of Village This Prototype Uses a RepRap To Play Air Hockey MakerBot Teams With 3D Hubs, Offers Local Thingiverse Prints   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • New Project: Make a Combination Blackboard/Bulletin Board Make a simple blackboard/bulletin board that cleverly uses a yardstick to divide the two. It's quick, easy, and makes a great gift too! Another great project from Make: contributor and toy inventor Bob Knetzger. Read more on MAKE The post Make a Combination Blackboard/Bulletin Board appeared first on Make:.          Comments Comments Related Stories New Project: Capstan Kite Winder   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Microsoft and Arduino Announce Hardware-Support Collaboration

 

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