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The Otto Remix Challenge is LIVE

HP Robots Otto: Remix Challenge First place:  Prusa CORE One+ kit HP Robots Starter Creator Kit + All Creator Expansions Second place:  HP Robots Starter Creator Kit + All Creator

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The One Thing Missing from Most Makers’ Skill Sets? Verified Safety Training.

The One Thing Missing from Most Makers’ Skill Sets? Verified Safety Training. (Good news: it’s not missing anymore.) If you’ve ever stood in front of a band saw and felt

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Why a 3-Month Lab Rat Rebel Membership Is the Smartest Way to Start Hardware Development in Shenzhen

Why a 3-Month Lab Rat Rebel Membership Is the Smartest Way to Start Hardware Development in Shenzhen (Even if your budget says “just one month”) If you’re building a product

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TroubleMaker’s 9th Anniversary in Numbers

Some things stop you dead in your track when you suddenly realize it. For me, this was realizing that TroubleMaker is not just one year back in Huaqiangbei, but we

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Inspirational videos

I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment)

Can you manufacture a product in America and compete in today’s market? This 4-year experiment follows Destin from Smarter Every Day as he attempts to build a high-quality grill scrubber entirely in the

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Inspirational videos

Why I’m making Metal Parts with a 3D Printed Tool

What do you do when a handmade electrical component becomes the bottleneck in your product? For this lighting rig designer, the answer was inventing his own mini punch press, using a 3D-printed die

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