Every October, the Make: editorial Slack fills up with links. Someone posts a skeleton that carves pumpkins, someone else answers with a 30-foot marionette, and by Halloween we have a full haunted house worth of inspiration. Here are some of the builds that keep resurfacing in the channel, from animatronics and yard-scale puppets to costumes […]

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Droid builders are reverse engineering Disney’s real-life “duck” robots.

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10 Things I Can’t Wait to See at Maker Faire Orlando Maker Faire Orlando has been on my bucket list even before I joined Make: in 2014. It is a long story I will refrain from.  But one that has never lined up for me to attend until now! In excited anticipation as I was […]

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Banan-a-Synth is just what it sounds like: a banana-sized, 20-note, capacitive touch keyboard that can mimic different instruments. And it sounds great.

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Taylor Waddell's working BART gate costume is well-done and incredibly niche.

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Make a squishy cow udder controller for your indie video game out of silicone and force-sensitive resistors, so players can squeeze teats to the beat!

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Sebastian Staacks from There Oughta Be built an LED mask that can change into any face using matrix panels, a Raspberry Pi Pico, and zip ties.

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In 1984, Tomy sold a toy robot that promised a domestic future it couldn’t quite deliver. Forty years later, a maker in Miami gave it vision, a voice, and just enough intelligence to finally pull it off.

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Teach a robot to balance, using reinforcement learning in simulation just like the big labs.

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Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition: 23–25 October 2026Gazometro Ostiense, RomeTickets are available exclusively online at makerfairerome.eu. Humanoid football, hands-on research, and more return to the Gazometro: The 14th edition runs from 23 to 25 October with 26 secondary schools, 27 universities and research centers, 145 projects and new programs spanning robotics, craft, books, food […]

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