Stevie Bathiche, director of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, introduces this video from GeekWire by explaining that “it looks like we just took an LCD and took the backlight off, but that’s actually not true. There’s actually been a lot of work that Samsung has done to improve the transmission quality of this display.” Be that as it may…
Rolos always make me think of my sister. When we were kids, they were hands down her favorite sweet treat. With the simple goodness of chocolate and caramel, it’s no wonder she loved them so much. Seeing how Shelly of Cookies and Cups incorporated Rolos into a decadent fudge brownie recipe makes me think I’ve […]
Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire is coming on Saturday, April 21st to Carl Shurz High School, with a selection of over 50 local makers…
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: cats, by dainora My shoes are infested with gnomes!, by Mochimochi Land flower garland, by katrinarodabaugh Master Yoda, by SweetSugarBelle Squid Costume, by hine
17 year-old Anika Brandsma, of the Netherlands, (known as Anika Vuurzoon in the LEGO community) built this excellent take on the LEGO Friends Olivia’s Invention Workshop set. To bring Olivia’s enviable robotics workshop to life, Anika added motors, sensors, and the micro controller brain from a Mindstorms NXT set. She hid the mechanisms below the […]
Nuno Alves, an assistant professor of computer engineering at Western New England University, has been experimenting with the BeagleBone and posted an excellent how-to on getting the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780 compatible LCD screens working with the embedded Linux platform.
