Setting Up A Soda Slam! and a Missile Command Recharged By Alan-1

Welcome to a post centring around a topic that hasn’t been touched on for some time, and is being done in the absence of much else – you may have noticed the site has gone fairly quiet this past week. However, we do actually have several stories that are brewing behind-the-scenes. As these things go at times, we currently have to wait on pulling the trigger, but I promise that things will pick up here very soon. In the meantime, for...

August 22, 2025Uncategorized0 Comments
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3D Printer Review: Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra

Manufacturer: Elegoo Price as tested: $524 Link: elegoo.com In the past, resin printers always came with big tradeoffs: big, fast, or cheap — you can have one. With the Saturn 4 Ultra, those days are gone. The Saturn 4 Ultra is a MSLA printer featuring a build volume of 218.88×122.88×220mm with a 12K mono screen. This means you have a larger build volume than a Prusa Mini or a Bambu A1 Mini but with a print...

August 22, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , 0 Comments
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Meet the teens behind RedSnapper: a smart Arduino-powered prosthetic arm

An affordable, AI-assisted, wearable robotic arm? That’s not science fiction – it’s RedSnapper, an open-source prosthesis built by PAC Tech, a team of high school students from Istituto Maria Immacolata in Gorgonzola, Italy. Powered entirely by Arduino boards, their project won the national “Robot Arm Makers” title at the 2025 RomeCup – and we think it’s a perfect example of what young minds can do with passion, creativity, and technology.

A smart, affordable prosthetic – made with Arduino

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August 21, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , 0 Comments
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Photo Roboto — Vintage Camera Snapshot Booth

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 89. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! There’s something undeniably charming about old cameras, and there’s something undeniably fun about photo booths. This build brings both together in a blend of low-fi prints, vintage hardware, and modern circuitry. A Raspberry Pi camera inside an old TLR (twin lens reflex) camera takes a user’s photo and prints it instantly on receipt paper. Your guests will be able to snap a...

August 21, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , 0 Comments
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Your plants can now play your video games

Arduino Team — August 20th, 2025 The population of the world is currently in an uproar as everyone panics about AI stealing jobs. But nobody seems to be concerned about the possibility of plants stealing video games. Nobody, that is, except a team of researchers from KAIST and the Royal College of Art, who decided to just go ahead and make that happen by building this system, called Plant.play(), that lets a houseplant care for...

August 20, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , 0 Comments
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Wonderful Wind Waker Watercraft Wows Wistful Watchers

How many hours did I spend sailing in Zelda: The Wind Waker? If I spent those hours building instead, maybe I could’ve crafted something like this King of Red Lions boat from LittleJem, who fulfilled a childhood dream by making the vessel a reality. After all, if you’re going to build something from a 20-year-old game, you might as well go big with it. Jem claims not to know anything about boat building, but does a brilliant job faking...

August 20, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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Sepia Lux, the Illuminated Cuttlefish

This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! When Bill Kennedy saw a Facebook post seeking someone to work on an inflatable art car, he replied that he had relevant Burning Man experience earning him the nickname “Inflatabill,” which became the name of his own business. By December 2020, Inflatabill’s event business had dropped off because of Covid and he was worried about paying the rent on his Santa Rosa,...

August 19, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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Petoi Programmable Robot Pets: Reviewed

Manufacturer: Petoi Price as tested: $435 Nybble Q, $469 Bittle X V2 + Arm Link: Petoi Robot Pets

Nybble Q

This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great articles. The Petoi Nybble Q cat is my go-to cool thing to show off to new guests. The servo-packed, palm-sized robot comes with built-in responses to a bunch of voice commands right out of the box, and I had a ton of fun messing...

August 18, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , 0 Comments
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Episode #798 – Atlantic Records, Pt. 5 – 1952-53

Air Week: August 18-24, 2025

Atlantic Records, Pt. 5 – 1952-53

Atlantic Records was the most influential, significant and important independent record label to come out of the late-1940s, during a time when there were many great, small indie labels being born. What gave Atlantic the advantage over Specialty, Chess, Modern, Vee-Jay, Exclusive, King, etc is the breadth of material, variety of music styles and the sheer number of hit records that led to the Rock n’...

August 17, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , , 0 Comments
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The Softer Side of Metal — Blacksmithing Fashion

This article is from Make Vol. 73! Subscribe now to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our awesome builds. Delicate. Soulful. Evocative. These aren’t typically the terms you hear us throw around when we speak of a blacksmith’s work. However, this artist is anything but typical. Ellen Durkan, known as Iron Maiden Forge, has been creating elaborate and mesmerizing works of fashion that are born from hot steel on the anvil. At...

August 15, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , , , 0 Comments
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