From advancements in technology and materials, to the development of innovative techniques and ideas, thereโs always something new on the horizon. As a maker, your success depends on your ability to keep up with all these changes. Let’s take a look at some of the most noteworthy developments that are taking place in making right now!
Enigma machines were extremely interesting coding machines used by Germany during World War II. As digital logic was still in its infancy, these machines used rotors configured in a certain pattern to decode the gibberish sent from military commanders to units in the field. Although mechanical marvels, they came nowhere near being small enough to […]
Coming to theย 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire isย the 7th season of Power Wheels racing. The Powerย Racing Series is a vaguely popular nerd โsportโ that mods simple toy store ride-on plastic cars and converts them into $500 25mph electric racing machines. The series’ main take home is the โenforcementโ of a tiny budget with sort […]
The Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts provided a bright, stark-white-and-glass frame for a US-based celebration that featured four of the five Arduino founders. David Mellis, one of the co-founders, is a graduate student at the Media Lab. He was the in-house connection. (No surprise that the fifth co-founder,ย Gianluca Martino, was not present.) Check […]
Photo: Andrew Salomone Makers are everywhere. If you’re not careful you may just bump into one. At least that’s what happened to me when I met artist Steve Gerberich as he stood on the sidewalk below his Brooklyn studio photographing one of his famous storefront window displays. I’d noticed his hypnotic, kinetic displays in other […]
Glorious summerย weather graced the first annual South Pole Mini Maker Faire (about a 12 hours’ flight south of New Zealand) and attendees were excited to see several exhibitions including an ice sculpting 3d printer, sub-zero crocheting corner, and C-130 Refueling hacks. Maker Faire Program Director Sabrina Merlo stated that the event was โOverwhelming positive […]
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, but to the most common breakout board isn’t breadboard friendly. So we go ahead and build a breadboard adaptor (Part 3 of 3)
The ESP8266 is now Arduino compatible, we walk you through installing the development environment and uploading your first sketch. (Part 2 of 3)
