Wow, all of a sudden, it feels like Washington, DC is a happenin’ place for DIY-minded techies and tinkerers. Check out this schedule of upcoming events: Saturday, April 26: RobotFest, Linthicum, MD Make: DC will be there doing Solarbotics BEAM workshops for kids! Sunday, April 27: HacDC Pre-Grand Opening Parts Party And: Tuesday April, 29: […]
HacknMod has a nice roundup of DIY solder station designs for prospective upgrading to your workbench. That last one above appears quite happy to be holding an iron its ‘eye’. Nice to see fume extractors becoming more integrated. – DIY Awesome Soldering Stations Related: How to: Candy tin fume extractor In the Maker store: Electronic […]
Now this looks like fun: The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software. The Tracker firmware is open source […]
This Flickr contest challenges you to create the most off-the-wall USB peripheral you can think of. Check out the URL above and tag your photos for the USB Flickr group. Note – it should say “prizes” not “prices” above. USB-ish contest, [via]
Next Tuesday there will be two events at ASU which should be interesting to us maker-folks. One is the exhibition from the Vizproto class, which is about 3D visualization and rapid prototyping in an arts context. Projects range from robot chassis to RFID tags embedded in acorns (above photo) and used in interactive installations to […]
Besides the venerable Jake von Slatt, one of the other retro-tech fabricators whose work always tickles my brass is Richard “Doc” Nagy, who self-deprecatingly introduces his online moniker with: “Datamancer” is my dorkish, haXor-sexy, 1337 Interweb nickname. Yeah I’m a dweeb…” Honestly, I don’t know many dweebs with such serious shop chops. What is a […]
Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
