Christian Science Monitor on wireless sensor networks 01/27/2009 (image of solar-powered 802.15.4 node from Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk) The Christian Science Monitor has an article on wireless...
Nerd merit badges 01/24/2009 Over at Global Nerdy, Joey deVilla writes about some cool merit badges for geeks: Just as Boy Scouts earn merit...
IDEO + Bug Labs BUGbase user interface project 01/23/2009 Dave Vondle from IDEO wrote in to tell us about a cool project they are working on with Bug Labs....
Making Things Talk excerpt: distance ranging 01/22/2009 Here’s another Make: Books PDF excerpt. This one comes from Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk, which tells you how to...
Eccentric Cubicle book excerpt: improvisational fabrication 01/15/2009 Here’s another Make: Books PDF excerpt, this time from Eccentric Cubicle. In the introductory chapter, author Kaden Harris explains the...
BeagleBot – a Beagle Board robotics project 01/15/2009 Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more,...
Free PDF on getting started with iPhone Development 01/14/2009 O’Reilly author Wei-Meng Lee has published a short free PDF that will get you started building iPhone applications with Apple’s...
Tom Igoe’s monkey tracking adventures 01/12/2009 Tom Igoe, author of Making Things Talk, is in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador, applying his sensor and embedded hacking...
Controlling airflow with the Make Controller 01/12/2009 Former Make intern Jake McKenzie is part of the team of students at UC Berkeley who made the Efficient Cooling...
Fashioning Technology book excerpt: Sewing Soft Circuits 01/08/2009 We’ve just posted a PDF excerpt from our first Craft book, Syuzi Pakhchyan’s Fashioning Technology. The book covers everything you...