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Tuesday January 26, 2016

Get Lost in the Details of These Miniature Test Tube Cities   Twigs become enormous trees and simple thread mimics power lines in Maker Rosa de Jong's intricate lilliputian landscapes. Check out more of de Jong's test tube creations.

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Build Your Kid a Drivable Electric Tank   Forget Power Wheels. Who wouldn't want to cruise around the neighborhood in a ridable tank? Maker Brian Bunnel breaks down his process into a few manageable modules so you can build one too… you know, for your kid.

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How to Use a Multimeter Video Tutorial   Maker Martin Lorton is a solar power and electronics enthusiast and has put together a great three-part video series on the basics of multimeters. Engaging and informative, it's one of the best we've seen.

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Don't Throw Out That Broken Hoverboard — Salvage the Parts for a Project   Deemed unsafe by Amazon and silly by many, hoverboards aren't all bad: they hold a wealth of parts to be reclaimed! Make: contributor Jeremy Cook shows you what he was able to keep out of the garbage pile.

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WARDKit: High Quality Waterjet at an Affordable Price   Have you ever dreamed of adding a waterjet to your job shop or Makerspace? The WARDKit build-it-yourself waterjet kit is just what you've been wishing for! At only 60% the cost of a fully-assembled WARDJet waterjet, the WARDKit offers the same made-in-America, professional-grade quality at an incredible value!

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Hack a Teddy Ruxpin to Say Anything   The original used data on a tape drive to choreograph facial movements with prerecorded sound. Now you can give Teddy a C.H.I.P. brain transplant, and he'll speak anything you type or tweet.

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Hollow Out Rocks for Cairn-Inspired Jewelry   Cairns are stacks of rocks that are sometimes used as trail markers or created as a kind of meditation. These configurations are the inspiration behind Nicole Ringgold's river rock jewelry.

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In the Maker Shed:

Discov3ry Paste Extruder for 3D Printers   3D print with food, silicone, electronic inks, and other amazing materials! The Discov3ry Paste Extruder enables you to 3D print with soft materials that were once out of reach for 3D printing. Print silicone orthotics or gaskets, biopolymers for biohacking, electronic inks like Bare Conductive, clay, nutella, jello, and much more.   $399.99

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