Hacking Retro Tech Gets Me Through the Good Times and the Bad
“I’ve always had a passion for vintage electronics, and making these old clunkers live again with new tech really inspires me.”
Technology
Blind Arduino Project Proves You Don’t Need to See to Build Electronics
William Gerrey and Dr. Joshua Miele made the Blind Arduino Project to help those in the blind community expand their STEM and Maker education.
This Functioning Monster 6502 Is a Larger Than Life Version of the Iconic Microchip
The Monster 6502 is an incredible homage to the chip that revolutionized home computing.
How Punch Cards and Arduino Close the Gap on Hacked Knitting
You can still use punch cards to operate knitting machines, but a few groups are now bringing the technology full circle by hacking knitting machines so that they may be operated digitally via an Arduino.
Spy on Garden Critters with Raspberry Pi-Powered Night Vision
Andrew Wedgbury has a fondness for hedge hogs. To better capture their lives in his garden, he made this Raspberry Pi camera.
The New “Arduino Create” Makes for Easier IoT Dev, Better Collaboration
Arduino Create, which came out of beta today, is a web-based development platform for Arduino that allows you to write, share, and collaborate on sketches.
Qualcomm Showcases DragonBoard 410c’s Expanded Developer Options at Maker Faire
DragonBoard 410c Returns to Maker Faire Last year at Maker Faire Qualcomm® upped its game in an effort to attract Makers and other developers to their DragonBoard™ 410c development board. This year the chip manufacturing giant returns to Maker Faire Bay Area with demos of custom apps, games, and robots all based on the DragonBoard […]
