Paul Spinrad, MAKE’s Executive Editor, has a brief piece on O’Reilly Radar today about movement in DC on a crowdfunding exemption. Here’s an excerpt: In May, I wrote here about efforts I’ve been involved with advocating a “crowdfunding exemption.” As part of the American Jobs Act introduced by President Obama last night, the White House […]
Michael S. Hart, the founder of the Project Gutenberg, passed away this week at age 64 in Urbana, Illinois. He single-handedly created the first free e-books and then organized a worldwide effort to give books their first digital form — as ASCII text. His chief goal was to make sure e-books were accessible to anyone for free on any device. His work in creating a truly public library is a lasting legacy, and Hart should be considered among the founders of the Free and Open Source movement.
As the Open Hardware summit approaches I’ll be posting some topics from the Open Hardware list. One of the recent discussions was about the need for more open tools (and helping folks use them)
Pie crust cookies are one of my favorite indulgences, but mine are never fancy like these lattice ones from Not Martha. I love how she made them to fit perfectly on a mug of hot cider. Yum!
The 58 year-old public school teacher has a dozen chickens and ten beehives that belong to a neighborhood “honey co-op.” He has about an acre of fruit trees and veggies growing on ten vacant lots behind his house. The day I came by, his working 1960 Ford tractor was parked a few paces away from a huge pungent patch of basil. Weertz’s sister was about to go pick peaches. The slim urban farmer walked over to his tractor and looked at a gauge that reported more than 2,000 hours of use since Weertz bought it 20 years ago.
Pam Garrison’s felt leaf garland is definitely influencing my fall decorating plan. Her combination of embroidery and simple shapes is just right for for hanging around windows or above a cozy fireplace. Let the crisp weather begin!
Malte Ahlers from Germany lucked into some FESTO hardware, and used it to build a robotic gripper (site is in German): I was intrigued by the FESTO FinGripper mechanism which they use for their “Bionic Handling Assistant” so I asked the guys from FESTO if they would give me three samples of the FinGripper fingers […]
