Kinecticate: Kinect-powered Email 09/07/2012 Chad Ruble wrote to me to share how he used a Kinect and the SimpleOpenNI library for Processing to help...
Baking Pi: Free Course in Basic “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Development 09/03/2012 Bare metal programming is the practice of writing code for the CPU without an operating system (like Linux) on board....
Play Some Artsy Mini Golf on Sunday 09/01/2012 Knockdown center held a mini-golf party which is continuing this Sunday night. Billed as the Outdoor Interactive Recreational Sculpture Park,...
Adafruit’s Custom Raspberry Pi Distro Gets an Upgrade 08/31/2012 There are some great features packed into Adafruit’s latest update to Occidentalis, their custom Raspberry Pi distro.
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 07, Raspberry Pi, Most Hackable Gadget 08/22/2012 Makers, tinkerers, and hackers have latched onto the Raspberry Pi because of its price and capabilities. And with the enormous...
ROM Dumping Leads to Discovery of 25 Year Old Easter Egg 08/21/2012 Adam Mayer and Trammell Hudson from NYC Resistor uncovered a series of photos stored in the ROM of an old...
Helping Hand, Reinterpreted 08/18/2012 You gotta love this mannequin hand that has been upgraded into a much more useful helping hand (or third hand)....
Nerdy Derby is Coming to World Maker Faire New York 08/16/2012 When I was younger, I absolutely loved the Pinewood Derby, the miniature car building and racing competition that we participated...
Enhancing a DSLR with Raspberry Pi 08/15/2012 Limerick, Ireland-based photographer David Hunt recently posted progress photos of his Raspberry Pi-enhanced DSLR battery grip, which he made for...
Top Ten Dorm Room Hacks 08/13/2012 It won’t be long before our college-aged readers head back to school for yet another year of studying and general...