The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino, AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and brief description via the contact link.

Making with Machines (3d Printing, CAD/CAM/CNC, Laser Cutting)

• 9 days to go on Super Awesome Sylvia's WaterColorBot (Kickstarter)
• 3D Printing Graphene will change the World as we know it! (3D Printers Audstralia)
• Introducing Autodesk 123D Design (Makerbot)
• Makerbot partnership with Microsoft (in case you missed this at Build)
• 3D Printing Fairytales (Makerbot)
• Mechanical characters made easy (Ponoko)
• 3D Printing LEGO-like blocks (Ultimaker)
• Is desktop 3D printing safe? Will it harm your health? (voxel fab)
• MakerWare 2.2.2 Sharkfill for Shark Week (Makerbot)
• Interview with Prabhjot Singh of the GE Additive Manufacturing Lab on using 3D printing in Manufacturing (voxel fab)
• The on-board 3d printer (SMBC)

Synthesizers, Music, and MIDI/OSC

• Video Explains Why Difference Between Analog, Digital Isn't What Most People Think (Peter Kirn)
• • Read the comments at the bottom of the page as well
• Owl Theremin (this is just …strange) (Nervous Squirrel)
• Sound as Art (NY Times)

NETMF (.NET Gadgeteer, FEZ Game-O, Netduino, AGENT, etc.)

• Just 8 days left on the Open-source programmable hand-held game console: Game-O (Kickstarter)
• .NET Microframework on Raspberry Pi (Part 1) (Laurent Ellerbach)
• • More accurately: .NET on RPi and also some other goodies
• Ultrasound sensor ad .NET Microframework (Laurent Ellerbach)
• ZX Spectrum Emulator running on an agent smartwatch (Apeoholic)

Arduino and AVR

• Getting started with Arduino (from Nothing) (Ponoko)
• Kit review - the Freetronics CUBE4: RGB LED Cube (tronixstuff)

Other Microcontrollers (PIC, ARM, Raspberry Pi, Parallax, more) and general OSHW

• Review- adafruit industries Mini 8x8 LED Matrix with the I2C backpack (tronixstuff)
• Adapteva Parallella - parallel computing for the masses (OSHWA)
• Ambilight controlled by Raspberry Pi (Hackaday)

General Electronics and Hardware Hacking

• Centimeter-level precision GPS (Hackaday)
• How are Cubelets Made? (Modular Robotics)
• Various 1Hz Oscillator Methods (tronixstuff)
• The MAX7219 LED display controller - real or fake? (tronixstuff)
• 4 Transistor FM Transmitter (Circuit-Zone)
• OLEDs Move Closer to Mainstream Lighting (Electronics-Lab.com)

Robots, Rovers, Drones, and *Copters

• Oversampling, Decimation, Filtering (Michael Shimniok)
• Rover RC Multiplexer (Michael Shimniok)

General Maker

• A beautiful camera stabilizer (DIY Photography)

Random Stuff

• My stream on SoundCloud has a bunch of new music (Me)