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What Do We Do Now? Learning from El Paso-Juárez
With the largest bilingual, binational workforce in the world, the El Paso-Juárez “borderplex” is home to over two and a half million people. Covid-19 has introduced incredible complexity into a region already defined by it: The border is closed except by permit and now, after a spring of relative calm, the region is coping with […]
Quarantined Cosplayers Coping with Covid
Social distancing trick-or-treating? Virtual costume parties? These are just a few of the ways cosplayers adjusted their Halloween festivities this year due to Covid-19. But it’s gone way beyond Halloween. Everyone has made adjustments to stay safe during the pandemic, and this includes all of your favorite content creators as well. Cosplayers, streamers, hosts, TikTok […]
Meadow F7
The Meadow F7 Micro by Wilderness Labs is a full-stack .NET IoT platform that was successfully funded on Kickstarter earlier this year. The Oregon-based company designed the board to be a modern plug-and-play platform to get users quickly started in developing IoT solutions. What makes the platform unique is it uses .NET, and C# to […]
Raspberry Pi’s Latest Offering Packs The Whole Computer Into A Keyboard
The Raspberry Pi has always been able to claim that it is a full computer, all you have to do is plug it into all the external components like a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to get going. However, it has been sold as a bare board since it’s conception, keeping it somewhat of a tool […]
Make:cast – Make Anything with Open Source Projects
Episode 3: Joshua Pearce on Open Source In the third episode of Make:Cast, I talk with Joshua Pearce about his new book, “Create, Share and Save Money Using Open Source Projects.” Joshua is a professor of materials science and electrical engineering at Michigan Tech University where he directs the Michigan Tech Open Sustainability Technology Lab […]
Happy Halloween: Maker Camp Spooktacular
It’s no secret that Halloween is a day that makers love. And, its great to see that childhood passion for trick-or-treating transform into a love of cosplay and costume creation and prop building. So this week and last we reached out to some of our favorite Maker Camp hosts to bring you and your community […]