Here’s how to move beyond rainbows and level up the hues on your RGB LED projects.

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This Father's Day I rounded up 9 projects my dad would like, plus one more.

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Incredible creators and projects at the FREE Open Healthware Conference happening July 9th & 10th in San Francisco!

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From Mare Island’s esplanade to Rome’s Gazometro, Happy Valley to the Orlando Fairgrounds, this fall share your world with the world at one of the dynamic Maker Faires featured below…and check our UPCOMING FAIRES page for smaller events across the world. Celebrate 20 Years Of Maker Faire Bay Area: September 25-27th This year is extra […]

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I was born in the early 1950s, and our first family home was in a rural area of Lehigh County in Pennsylvania. My dad, Karson Albert, worked as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, but during WWII he served in the Merchant Marines as a Midshipman on the Liberty ships. At the start of WWII, […]

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It’s lunchtime as I write this and my daughter Lizzy is making lasagna, not helping with lasagna but making it. Her brother Peter sulks nearby because it was supposed to be his turn at the stove this weekend, and these two now argue over who gets to cook the way other kids argue over the […]

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Learn SketchUp by designing your own Lego-compatible bricks for 3D printing.

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When Kristin Berbawy arrived in Prague, she wasn’t expecting to find herself immediately at home. But a Maker Faire anywhere, feels a lot like home to a maker. Outside her hotel window, a giant laser sliced across the night sky from Prague’s iconic TV Tower as the city celebrated Liberation Day. It looked less like […]

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A new month means new OSHWA certifications. May brought a robot arm, a RISC-V badge, and a windmill SAO!

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This mesmerizing rainbow diffraction grating clock puts a little more color in your daily timekeeping.

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