Crowdfunding Confusion: Scammers Attempt to Rip Off Successful Campaigns Using Indiegogo
Successful Kickstarter campaigns are becoming the targets of copy-cat scammers on Indiegogo.
Year: 2013
Sharknado Headpiece
This decorative headpiece was recently witnessed by Mythbuster Grant Imahara at San Diego Comic-Con, because a movie called Sharknado absolutely deserves to be memorialized in hat form.
Seeed Studio’s Arduino Phone
What do you get when you add a touchscreen shield and a GPRS shield to an Arduino Uno? A phone!
Maker Camp: It’s Field Trip Friday
Today Maker Camp hits the road for a virtual field trip. This time we’re headed to the headquarters of Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri. Hallmark is a $4 billion business with greeting cards and other products sold in 39,000 retail stores across the U.S. and in 100 countries worldwide. What’s a greeting card company have to with making? Plenty.
Lego Mindstorms EV3 Source Code Available
Hackers are chomping at the bit to tinker around under the hood of the new Lego Mindstorms microcontroller brick, the EV3, which packs an ARM9-based processor running Linux.
Cory Doctorow: Every act of Making Begins as an act of Unmaking
In a keynote presentation at the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire last month, Cory Doctorow had some interesting things to say about making and much more. “The gateway drug to making is breaking,” he says. “That is to say, every act of making begins as an act of unmaking.” Have a look:
Crashing, Rolling, Printing, Foo-ing, and Crowdfunding (Plus a Poll!)
The theme of the weekend is kinetic energy, and Editorial Director Ken Denmead needs your help in transferring some momentum.
