MAKE flickr pool member mrbill is tinkering around with an AVR Butterfly 4- Atmel AVR Butterfly microcontroller evaluation kit. Also has temperature sensor and speaker. The best thing – it’s only $20! In the photo, he spells MAKE! Link.
MAKE Flickr pool member wirehead writes “I’m bringing up the gen2 circuit board. This should be the sort of thing that a qualified electrical engineer would whip out in a matter of minutes. But, I’m a programmer who likes to mess around with technology, so things sometimes take a little longer than they ought to. Or I connect power to ground and ground to power. I do that sometimes, too. But now, I can program this board to do stuff, once I get the LEDs all soldered up. Soon, you will start seeing this board in my light art”… Link.
Make your own Beastie Boy song, they are adding a new track every Friday or so…We’ve launched a new section on the site offering Beastie Boys A Cappellas for you to download and use for your own personal remixes (along with tempo information for most tracks). We’ll be updating it each week for the next little while with a new one for you to download. Check it out. Link.
Bob Moog is a giant in both technology and music, the two softest spots in the hearts of so many MAKE readers. Jimmy Guterman was making plans to visit Moog and interview him for MAKE when we learned he was battling cancer. Moog died Sunday, August 21, 2005. Link.
The price of the disposable culture, companies selling those “extra warranties”…The rising popularity of high-priced cellphones, notebook computers and MP3 players is starting to hit the hip pocket of insurance firms, which are now forking out millions of dollars for lost and broken gadgets. Link.
The price of the disposable culture, companies selling those “extra warranties”…The rising popularity of high-priced cellphones, notebook computers and MP3 players is starting to hit the hip pocket of insurance firms, which are now forking out millions of dollars for lost and broken gadgets. Link.
Arimaa is the first game designed specifically to be hard for computers to play, while easy for people. With its billions of combinations and push-me-pull-you gameplay conditional value strategy, it’s too much for brute force computing. And yet, it’s simple enough for a child to play [