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This year, MAKE/O’Reilly author Damien Stolarz (iPhone Hacks, Car PC Hacks) agreed to be our eyes and ears on the ground at CES, scoping out hardware at the show that he thought would be of interest to makers. Here’s his second installment, a tour of North Hall and the International Pavilion. (Here’s Part 1) Thanks, […]
Sherry Huss, Maker Media’s Director of Sales and Events, posted this phonecam pic on Facebook of Jeff Potter’s Cooking for Geeks, spotted at the Wired Science Station. Wired is also featuring a MakerBot in their Maker Station. More: 10 questions with Jeff Potter of Cooking for Geeks Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Cooking for Geeks Alt.CES: […]
YouTuber chipos81’s Z-Machine port to the Livescribe Echo yields one of the best known text-based adventure games to paper.
For folks that don’t have the time to read the morning toast, a team from MIT Media Lab led by David Carr have fashioned an ambient feedback toothpaste dispenser, called Tastes Like Rain, that will check the forecast and dispense an appropriate amount and flavor of toothpaste suited to the day’s weather conditions.
Akiba of Freak Labs wrote in to share how he used one of his open hardware Freakduino boards to create a realtime wireless protocol analyzer for the 802.15.4 standard.
We covered the work of Eric Strebel in the lead-up to Maker Faire Detroit. He contributed to our “Making Detroit” series. Now he and partner Jim Nogarian have brought their design for the Solar Vox personal USB solar charger to Kickstarter. They’re looking for $35,000 in funding to bring their product to market. Solar Vox […]
And we’re back with our twenty-sixth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Pete Prodoehl wrote in to share his version of the DIY iPad Stylus: Great video… I made my own, with just a few modifications… build info is here Desiring […]
