Year: 2008

Learn Arduino in Seattle

Learn Arduino in Seattle

Josh Kopel will be teaching an Arduino workshop through Seattle’s 911 Media Arts Center. The Arduino is a small programmable device capable of big things. With it you can examine the world through various sensors and use the data to control motors, lights and just about any other electronic device. Come learn how to build […]

Micro RC Jousting

This was one of the most charming projects I saw at Maker Faire, Nyssa’s little micro RC jousters. Such a simple idea, a great project for kids, and one of those things that starts you thinking about other things to do with your tiny RC cars. You could make lots of papercraft skins, have a […]

Global SuperOrganism

Global SuperOrganism

A nice essay to freak you out from Kevin Kelly… computing superorganisms… I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. […]