“Man-cave” workshop 07/15/2010 Craig Crutchfield’s beautiful garage workshop is “a man cave, a sanctuary, a workspace.” Mostly I build these really crusty picture...
Do kids have a place in hackerspaces? 07/14/2010 Jarkko Moilanen wrote an interesting post about whether or not minors have a place in hackerspaces. The topic came up...
Roila: A spoken language for robots 07/14/2010 The Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology is developing ROILA, a spoken language designed to be easily understandable by robots. The...
Hacker hams transmitting from H.O.P.E. 07/13/2010 This weekend’s Hackers on Planet Earth convention in New York City will include hams transmitting under the special event call-sign...
DIY cargo bike 07/13/2010 The dutch have long ago perfected a design known as the Bakfiets (“box bike”) for transporting cargo. These literally are...
Polynome 5000: A monome midi controller 07/13/2010 Colin Mann of Los Angeles created a 64-button RGB monome midi controller sporting 6 slide faders, an IR sensor, a...
Make: Kids: An interview with GeekDad’s Ken Denmead 07/12/2010 Ken Denmead, editor of the GeekDad blog, wrote a book called Geek Dad, a compendium of fun and geeky projects...
Happy birthday Buckminster Fuller, futurist 07/12/2010 Bucky got his start in the sheet metal trade as a machinist, and had a hard time fitting in to...
Old-school ‘tronics bench 07/11/2010 John Kittelsrud of Phoenix, AZ, dropped a line to share his awesome setup… the photo dates from 1991! “This was...
Physical chess set challenges Internet opponents 07/11/2010 The Internet Chess Table is a project for playing internet chess on a 3D board with real pieces. For the...
