Hackaday posts member project!
Hackaday featured Scott’s project of exploring the Mandelbrot set written in Atari BASIC. Check it out!
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Laser Cutting a Jigsaw Puzzle
by MACE My 2.5 year old grand-niece loves jigsaw puzzles. I thought it would be a nice to make a custom puzzle for her using a photograph of people she knows. Here’s how I did it. My approach was to...
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Where do Workshop 88 members live?
We have members that live all throughout the Western suburbs of Chicago, but most of our members live somewhere in DuPage county. Most of our members live within a 30 minute drive to downtown Glen...
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Making a Chess Clock with a Circuit Playground Express — User Interface...
by MACE We are makers. Some of us take an object and reshape it to make something new. Others of us assemble components together. For 50 years, I’ve made computer programs. And I still enjoy it. In...
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Chess Clock 2.0 using an Adafruit MacroPad
by MACE I built a better chess clock. It’s no surprise that my first attempt (see...
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Hack from slack #1
Jim posted a clever hack on the Workshop 88 slack workgroup recently. Here was his description: One of the limitations of working with the dear old AT Tiny85 is that it has no UART. Yeah, we’ve all...
View ArticleFinding the center of a small circle – Maker Meeting Short Take
Jim had a need to drill the center of a small circle – he shared his method with us on a recent Zoom call. Support us on Patreon Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter
View Article3D Printing flexible material and RC plane adventures!
Peter recently shared with us his success in printing with flexible filament as well as new adventures in RC airplane building and repair.
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Watching the James Webb Space Telescope Cool
For those of you who like to watch grass grow or paint dry, here’s another option: watching the James Webb Space Telescope cool. The JWST was successfully launched, deployed, and achieved stable...
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Upcycled LED Illumination for 3D Printing Area
I was given some salvaged LED lights which became a worthwhile improvement to my 3D printing area. This is what the 3D printing area looked like before the upcycled lighting. Since all of my prints...
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