Month: February 2014

This Week: Be on the Lookout for Something Big

This Week: Be on the Lookout for Something Big

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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Starting next week, MAKE and Shawn Thorsson, costume and prop builder extraordinaire, will debut a new video series as he prepares for Maker Faire Bay Area. We’re not saying what it is yet other than it’s going to be big and it will demand your attention.

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Projects with Ryan Slaugh: Building a Raspberry Pi Pinewood Derby Race System

Projects with Ryan Slaugh: Building a Raspberry Pi Pinewood Derby Race System

By Ryan Slaugh

Ryan Slaugh

Ryan Slaugh is a hardware and software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and building different systems. While he has a few college degrees, his best training came from growing up on a farm and working with his father who was also an electrician. Ryan works regularly with woodworking, metal work, electronics, and software. Ryan also has a love of tools and collects as many as he can.

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Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Alamode join forces to control a Pinewood Derby race track.

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Ken To’s Wire Bonsai Trees

Ken To’s Wire Bonsai Trees

By Andrew Salomone

Andrew Salomone

Artist, writer, and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes. http://www.andrewsalomone.com

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Artist and bonsai enthusiast Ken To started making sculptures of bonsai trees from wire as a way to hone his bonsai styling skills, and they’ve come out so well that they’ve caught the eye of other bonsai collectors.

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Building a Bullet Time Rig at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree

Building a Bullet Time Rig at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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We talked to Andrew Robinson about building the “Frozen Raspberry” bullet time rig from Raspberry Pis.

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10 Questions for Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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“I think one of the reasons we’ve been successful is we’ve had this commitment to not be a magpie and run off after some shiny new thing after six months.” As part of our celebration of Raspberry Pi’s second birthday, I interviewed Eben Upton, founder and former trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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