Connected Home

It’s no secret that technology is steadily advancing at a rapid pace, making having access to updated information an essential part of staying on top of trends. To help you stay informed, we’re sharing these blogs highlighting the amazing innovation taking place in the realm of connected home devices and IoT news! Our goal: to provide makers like yourself with relevant product releases, industry thinking, tips & tricks related to working on meaningful projects in these spaces – all accompanied by actionable advice along the way. Join us as we explore topics such as building smart homes powered by artificial intelligence-driven tech or transitioning analog operations into multi-device networks that allow data access anytime and anywhere.

10 Chore-Busting Projects to Build Before Labor Day Weekend

By Sophia Smith

Sophia Smith

Sophia is the managing editor of the Make: blog. When she’s not greasing editorial gears, she likes to run, ride, climb, and lift things, and make lo-tech goods like zines, desserts, and altered clothing. @sophiuhcamille

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This Labor Day build a project to help automate your daily life. Don’t think about chores, just kick back and focus on what really matters.

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Estimote Fixes Security Problems with Beacon Firmware

Estimote Fixes Security Problems with Beacon Firmware

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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By Sandeep Mistry

Sandeep Mistry

Sandeep Mistry is a professional software engineer, who enjoys tinkering with the Internet of Things and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices.

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With their latest firmware release Estimote has closed the security problem that made their beacons vulnerable to hijacking. But some questions surrounding their SDK remain.

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Bright Idea: Using Raspberry Pi as a Lamp Timer

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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The following is an excerpt from Getting Started with Raspberry Pi by Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace.  Let’s say you’re leaving for a long vacation early tomorrow morning and you want to ward off would-be burglars from your home. A lamp timer is a good deterrent, but hardware stores are closed for the night and you […]

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The Emergence of the Connected City

The Emergence of the Connected City

Glen Martin

By Glen Martin

Glen Martin

Glen Martin covered science and environment for the San Francisco Chronicle for 17 years, and has freelanced to more than 50 magazines, including Wired, Audubon, Discover, The Utne Reader, Men’s Journal, Science Digest, National Wildlife, BBC Wildlife, Outside, Sierra, The Financialist, Reader's Digest, and publications for the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Notre Dame University, the University of Colorado, and San Francisco State University. His latest book, Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife, was published in 2012 by the University of California Press.

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If the modern city is a symbol for randomness — even chaos — the city of the near future is shaping up along opposite metaphorical lines. The urban environment is evolving rapidly, and amodel is emerging that is more efficient, more functional, more — connected, in a word. This will affect how we work, commute, and […]

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