Shouldn't Be Hard

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Why design cannot remain exclusive

The Open Design Now website is well designed. I have the book (available for loan, as are other books), but hadn’t seen the site before. A useful and interesting resource.



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Engineering for Real-World Problems

Ten tips on using your maker skills for humanitarian, environmental, and social causes.

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Zine: The Burning Sand

A poetry, prose & art zine which means to plough the furrow of Critical Regionalism



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Muzzley and Intel Galileo LED strip demo

Muzzley provides libraries for the most popular languages and platforms and in this project allows you to control a led strip with a mobile device (iOS and Android) using an Intel Galileo Board: We integrated Muzzley into an Intel Galileo board so that we could control an RGB LED strip with our smartphone through the […]



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Arduino Helper Functions

Sometimes finding the right snippet of code to use in your Arduino sketch is as simple as reading the Monday Jolt on the MAKE site.

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Pixelated: The LED Art of Jim Campbell

Sculpture-video hybrids from artist Jim Campbell, who uses cutting-edge technology to produce low-resolution works.

















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Support Open Source Beehives and help promoting international bee recovery

Recent declines in honey bee populations raised attention of many scientists and now makers started activating swell. The Open Source Beehives (OSBH) project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by Bee populations in industrialised nations around the world. They’ve just launched a campaign on Indiegogo and are waiting for your contribution. The campaign […]



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Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected

His name is Brad, and he's an addict. And a toaster.

Brad is the star of "Addicted Products," a design experiment recently named Best in Show at the 2014 Interaction Awards. As a connected toaster, he's in constant contact with other connected toasters like him -- and thus keenly aware of how much action they're getting. If he's not being used as much as his friends, Brad gets upset. He'll wiggle his little handle to get your attention, begging you to make some toast or at least to give him a reassuring pat on the side. Ignore him long enough, and he'll take a more drastic measure: pinging a network of potential owners to find a new home. Hey, at least he didn't burn down your kitchen.

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Business as Unusual

GSA occupies an interesting space in Higher Education. It is (very) small by Higher Education standards, and based in Scotland (where tuition fees, for home students at least, don’t yet exist), on the fringes of Europe and the UK, in a city that has a well connected thriving artistic community. It is a designated SSI […]



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Wanted: Arduino Projects for Arduino Day

We're looking to feature your projects here on the MAKE blog all through next week. If you're not going to be able to show off your project at your local Arduino event on Arduino Day, maybe you should show it off to the world?

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Jazz breaking news: GoGo Penguin, Polar Bear and MY Duo added to Gateshead Jazz Fest

The 10th edition of the Gateshead International Jazz Festival, which runs from Friday 4 to Sunday 6 April, has confirmed its full programme that now includes exciting double bills from cutting edge tyros Polar Bear and Chris Sharkey’s Shiver (6 Apr), plus the hard-blowing post-bop of the Jean Toussaint Quartet (JT4), with support from the Jason Yarde/Andrew McCormack MY Duo with the Elysian String Quartet (5 Apr). The festival, which runs across various stages at Sage Gateshead, also includes big name headliners Robert Glasper Experiment Band, The Spring Quartet – featuring Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Esperanza Spalding and Leo Genovese – and Django Bates featuring saxophonist Joakim Milder and the Norrbotten Big Band playing the music of Prefab Sprout and Charlie Parker (4 Apr).

Also featured are rising stars GoGo Penguin (5 Apr, pictured), Brazilian jazz-funk singer/instrumentalist Ed Motta (4 Apr) and soca, ska and reggae jazz from Courtney Pine’s House Of Legends band (5 Apr). Guitar guru Bill Frisell’s Beautiful Dreamers trio (6 Apr), and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with guest vocals from Jacqui Dankworth complete the headliners. There will be a live presentation of Jazz Record Requests with Alyn Shipton (11am, 5 Apr), family-friendly music workshops, Jazz Lounge multi-media space and Way In To The Way Out music seminars.

– Mike Flynn

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DiResta: Simple Silkscreening

In this episode of DiResta, Jimmy shows you how to make a simple (and cheap) silkscreen.

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RFID Power Ups Transform Go-karting Into Mario Karting

MAKE's Matt Richardson gets a behind-the-scenes look at how Penzoil and Nintendo created a real-life experience inspired by the popular MarioKart video game.

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