Instant Prints! OpenCAL Layerless 3D Printing

From Make: magazine: Now you can build OpenCAL, the world’s first layerless, all-at-once 3D printer. The CAL team has condensed much of our lab setup into a new, accessible open-source platform. OpenCAL is a project designed to let the public build, test, and contribute to the volumetric additive manufacturing (VAM) community.

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Move Beyond the Rainbow With These LED Color Tips

From Make: magazine: RGB LED projects are full of rainbow animations — it’s the “hello world” of addressable pixel strips. But if you refine your palette you can create a far more impactful, more memorable effect. Here’s how to level up the hues on your LED projects.

The Fight Against a 3D Printing Bill in California Continues

From the Make: Substack: Proposed law won't solve the real gun violence problem lawmakers want to address.

ESP32 Bit Pirate Turns Boards Into Bench Tools

French developer Geo has created the ESP32 Bit Pirate. Inspired by the Bus Pirate, this pirate is a Swiss-army-knife firmware set of hardware debugging tools. “It came from a very practical need: when developing or debugging hardware, there is often a moment where you need to interact directly with a chip, sensor, flash memory, bus, or unknown device at a low level,” Geo says

Afrofuturistic Building Brick

From the Make: magazine archives: Can black sculptures made out of Lego lead to liberation for Black people around the world? Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako thinks so, and that has been his guiding principle in making stunning pieces of art, like Kumbisaleh 3020 CE, an Afrofuturistic re-imagining of a medieval city in the ancient kingdom of Ghana.

Create a 10-Foot-Tall Fire Tornado

Fire, on its own, can be beautiful, intangible, and seemingly alive. When you can add a bit of control to that fire, it becomes mesmerizing and entrancing. Caleb Kraft shows how to harness this beautiful and dangerous phenomenon called a fire tornado on your own.

Make: Physics is Here.

From the Maker Shed: Learn calculus-based mechanics by building it. Make: Physics teaches first-semester physics through hands-on electronics and 3D-printed projects. Kinematics, energy, momentum, rotation, all explored with BBC micro:bit processors and simple 3D prints you make yourself. Perfect for high schoolers taking physics and calculus together, intro college students, homeschoolers, and self-teachers. A companion to Make: Calculus.

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