The first version of a native AIM client for the iPhone was released today under the GPL2 license! It’s based on the libFiretalk IM library, and it currently provides basic chat functionality. This snippet from their project page is interesting, though: The overall direction of the project is to get libPurple compiled for the iPhone […]
We’ve blogged about the Robot Hut before, and I’d been there (the site) before, but I’m not sure I’d seen how much info there is on all of the builds for many of the bots in the Hut’s collection. And there’s a tour of the museum in 3D, too (and even a link on where […]
The wire-nuts over at uC Hobby have posted a how-to on making a programmable hobby microcontroller board in an hour, for around $15. This piece was submitted as part of uC Hobby’s “Hobby parts for articles” program. The submitter, James Moxham, scored himself a Bare Bones Arduino Kit. 1-Hour $15 Hobby Microcontroller How-To – Link […]
MAKE pal I-Wei Huang has fallen big-time for mini-humanoid robots. We can only hope he won’t give up his steam obsession in the process. For ROBOTS-DREAMS, I-Wei has written an in-depth review of the A-621 GENEX Suit kit, a Polycarbonate skin/”body armor” for the Kondo KHR-2HV. Ever the kit basher, I-Wei added LED eyes to […]
Moddy has a step by step guide on hacking up hand crank flashlights with a USB port for charging 5V gadgets (electronics that get their power or can be powered from the USB port)…Link.
If the Maker movement had a soundtrack I think there might be couple songs from Lullatone & Loud Objects / Tristan Perich/1-Bit Music. I went to Glasslands Gallery in NY, it’s a warehouse-like space in Williamsburg that had a few bleepity-bloop electronic sampled music acts in one evening. Loud Objects being a live soldering show […]
There are so many Arduino projects lately (and we are now stocking, well trying to keep stocking) the Arudino kits in the Maker store I’m giving them their own category here on MAKE… What’s Arduino? Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, […]
