Swap-O-Rama-Rama NY Event Rescheduled to Feb 20th
Due to the snowstorm this weekend in NY, the Swap-O-Rama-Rama event we told you about last week is now rescheduled for Presidents Day, Monday Feb 20th. Link.
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Ceramic Chain Mail Art
Ruth Borgenicht is an artist who creates ceramic pieces of chain mail into various works of art. From her site,”Worn under Medieval armor, chain mail is made of tiny interlocking metal rings designed to protect a body in motion. I use the chain mail pattern and other woven patterns to create ceramic works that conjure […]
An iPod is an iPod is an iPod – until you hack it…
Modifications for everything from browsers to cellphones, an article by Hiawatha Bray in the Bostin globe – “We are all hackers now. At least, we can be. Americans have built our lives on a foundation of silicon and software, with computers in millions of homes and digital music players in millions of shirt pockets. They’re […]
South Korea develops low cost running robot
Robotis of South Korea developed a low(er) cost version of the QRIO and ASIMO that can also run, they call him…HUBO. [via] Link.
The Nilno Laser Fab
Smouldering-Dog writes – “This is from my site. It describes construction of a simple microcontroller circuit that has user I/O, two seven segment LEDs, a buzzer and A/D converter. It was originally made to drive a CO2 laser but the new firmware can be installed on the microcontroller to program the board to perform other […]
Interiew with RFID implant pioneer
Alberto writes “Here’ an extensive interview with Amal Graafstra, author of RFID Toys and one of the first person with an RFID implant to open his front door, or accesing his computer. About the implantation process, social reaction, projects…” Link. See our interview too…
The GarageMahal
Bill Gurstelle from The Technology Underground Blog outlines the perfect Maker workshop – “In an earlier post, I brought up the idea of “the perfect home workshop.” or as one clever person put it, “the GarageMahal.” I believe that almost anything I could think of could be build in a shop like that.” Link. Also, […]