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IN OUR previous 10-week “How to be a maker” series, we went on a tour of the basics, culminating in building an autonomous biscuit-fetching robot. If you missed it, you can catch up online at the ...

Some of the best DIY projects use microcontrollers or cheap single board computers to automate awesome stuff. But Between the Arduino, the Raspberry Pi, and the BeagleBone, it's hard to figure out ...

LAST week, our plants learned to tell us they are thirsty. Now we are going to expand their repertoire. Spider plants are happiest at between 20 and 30°C. That range suits me too, so it may seem that ...

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