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Tuesday January 17, 2017

Sew a Custom Handbag with a Built-In LED Matrix   Here's a bright, beautiful, and interactive accessory for an evening out that's also a great conversation starter — a fabric-topped vinyl handbag with a removable, Bluetooth-connected, full-color LED matrix. Use your smartphone to display custom patterns or data from a site like Twitter in real time.

READ MORE           Sponsored by:             Turn on a Lamp with a Gesture-Controlled Harry Potter Wand   Make some magic with this Raspberry Pi-powered wand and lamp set. Inspired by the interactive features of Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter, cast different spells (aka gestures) with the wand to turn the lamp on and off and change colors. No need for a light switch when you can cast “Lumos!”       Read More           Our Top Shop Tips for 2016   Last year was a great year for tips and tricks collected and published here on Make:. Here are some of the most popular and useful tips that we covered in 2016, followed by links to the original posts which contain even more indispensable tips.       Read More           How to Make a Snowball Shooter from a Leaf Blower   Designer, maker, and YouTuber Mark Rober was tired of his nephews getting the best of him during family snowball fights, so he applied his engineering skills to create a blower-based shooter that accepts magazines of snowballs for some serious, rapid-fire bombardment of the nephew's snow fort.       Read More           Getting Started with Your Multimeter   Multimeters are essential tools. Beginners may be daunted, but once you learn how to use one, it actually makes learning process easier, because it reveals what's going on in a circuit that you can't normally see.       Read More           Ben Heck's Controller Mod Brings One-Handed Gaming to Playstation, Finally   I'm sure many video game enthusiasts (myself included) take for granted that they can easily hit all the buttons on a game controller. But while differently-abled gamers have been able to mod Xbox game controllers with some ease, modded Playstation controllers have been elusive — until now.       Read More           More from Make:   Compose synthy samples with a rotating sound sequencer made out of Lego Mindstorms.   Here are 13 awesome shop tips that you can learn from auto shops.           Upcoming Maker Faires   »  Bangkok Mini Maker Faire (Thailand): Jan 21–22 »  Perpignan Mini Maker Faire (France): Jan 27–28 »  Caguas Mini Maker Faire (Puerto Rico): Jan 28 »  Maker Faire Kuwait (Mushrif, Kuwait): Feb 9 »  Kalispell Mini Maker Faire (Montana): Feb 25   Find a Maker Faire near you on the Maker Faire map.     FIND A FAIRE         Maker Media, Inc | 1160 Battery St. East, Ste 125 | San Francisco, CA 94111   Having trouble viewing this email? View it online.