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Caleb Kraft is using his skills for good. If you have limited mobility, or know someone who does, you know how much escape (or hope) can be found in video games. But standard controllers are made for people with two-handed dexterity. It’s especially complicated with small thumbsticks and gyros requiring a high level of precision, which can exclude mobility-limited players from the universe of games.

Featured image by Acmer Manufacturer: Acmer Price as tested: $6,299 Link: ACMER SM Best Budget Fiber MOPA Split Laser Marking Machine Typically when someone offers us a tool for review, it falls neatly into one of two categories – either it’s a great fit for a maker audience or it isn’t. Occasionally something comes in that isn’t immediately clear. Maybe it would’ve been a great product a few years ago but by the time it comes out it missed its moment.

A nifty little project came across the Make Discord the other day: Romu is a tiny dev board by Bitmerse that’s powered by a Raspberry Pi PR2354A and runs MicroPython. And tiny it is. At just 15.5 × 12 mm, the board is barely bigger than the chip itself and fits almost entirely in a USB-A slot (there’s still some PCB left for you to grab to pull out). With such a small size, there’s not much space for extras like switches or exposed GPIO pins.

For the fourth and final time, Royal Delft’s hand-painted trophies will stand on the podium of the Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix, and this year’s edition carries an extra spark designed by FashionTech pioneer Anouk Wipprecht and artist-producer Don Diablo.

Chocolate Millennium Falcons? Yes please. We asked our friends at Other Machine Co. for fun projects they like to make with their new Othermill, a desktop CNC mill for cutting circuit boards and other small projects. Here’s what they’re making lately in their shop in San Francisco. Chocolate Millennium Falcon By Ed Lewis Chocolate may not […]

Join us live for a chat with the authors of Make: Volume 98 about getting out of the workshop and putting rubber to the road for our Action issue! Engineer and inventor Saul Griffith will show off his all-wheel-drive, electric go-cart that’s just as fun to drive as it is to build (and can theoretically beat a Tesla off the line!). Bay Area Foam Tag’s Ryan Cho will talk about building and battling with custom Nerf-style blasters.

Photos and diagrams by Mike Bedford, except where otherwise stated. Featured photo by Bartek Biela. This article appeared in Make: Vol. 96. Subscribe to Make: for the latest articles. Radio signals don’t pass through rock to reach caves, mines, and tunnels, right? You’d be excused for thinking so, because you’ve surely lost your favorite radio station, or your phone conversation, when you’ve driven into a tunnel. But things aren’t that simple.

Whoop There It Is! To start this project off, we’ll remove the motor connectors on the Matrix flight controller to cut weight. The easiest way is to carefully clamp the controller into a hobby vise so that it sits level in the jaws, with its motor connectors on the bottom. Alternatively you can use helping hands, but take care to attach the clamps where they won’t damage any of the SMD components.

When a giant bird flaps its wings, a fire-breathing steel flower blossoms, and fighting robot machines roll into the arena, it’s Maker Faire time again. On August 15 and 16, the Hannover Congress Centrum (HCC) will open its doors for the 13th time to Germany’s largest do-it-yourself technology festival.

Turning a digital idea into a finished full-color physical product often requires several machines, multiple software tools, manual coloring, repeated positioning, and outsourced production. For creators and small businesses, this can make customization slow, expensive, and difficult to scale. The HeyGears G1 Series is the world’s 1st desktop full-color 3D & UV printer, bringing three capabilities into one modular platform.