software

Max Microsite

You Didn’t Know it, but Max Is the Software Behind a Ton of Great Maker Projects

To celebrate the milestone of publishing 1,000 user-created projects using Max interactive software, parent company Cycling ‘74 created a microsite highlighting all 1,000 projects.

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Watch Your Favorite Song Transform into a 3D Model

Watch Your Favorite Song Transform into a 3D Model

If you’ve used a desktop music application, you’ve probably discovered some type of hypnotic visualization feature that renders patterns and colors that are synchronized to your tunes. But how many of those visualizations create a 3D model viable for 3D printing? My bet is probably zero. Blair Neal, a Brooklyn-based artist and creative technologist, developed […]

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Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference

Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference

O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show  covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]

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Review: LulzBot Mini 3D Printer

Review: LulzBot Mini 3D Printer

LulzBot is known for their exceptional engineering, upgradability, and commitment to open source — but not for portability, nor for having a space-saving footprint. Now, the team has released the LulzBot Mini to help those who don’t have the desk space required for their larger Taz, but are looking for many of the same features. The […]

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A Quick How-To: Debugging Your PSoC 4 BLE Pioneer Kit

A Quick How-To: Debugging Your PSoC 4 BLE Pioneer Kit

A quick #PSoCMaker tip for debugging your BLE Pioneer Kit. Just click the bug!

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Arduino IDE 1.6 Released

Arduino IDE 1.6 Released

After two years in the making, the new Arduino development environment comes with a laundry list of new features.

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