The Kit That Launched the Tech Revolution
On the 40th anniversary of the Altair 8800 microcomputer: 1975–2015. Though primitive by today’s standards, the Altair 8800 is widely credited with jump-starting the personal computer era.
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Nixie the Wearable Selfie Drone Delights Crowd at CES 2015
Moving from concept to reality, the small wristband drone dazzled the CES crowd and tech community.
Turning Your Plastic Computer Keyboard Into A Wooden One
New technology gets an old-fashioned makeover with this DIY wooden keyboard.
Circular Knitic: An Open Hardware Knitting Machine
Artist duo Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet designed and built an open hardware automated knitting machine called Circular Knitic.
A Ti-Powered Sous-Vide Cooker
If you thought microcontroller-enabled cooking was only for Arduinos, Trey German contacted me with his sous-vide cooker, built around a Texas Instruments MSP430F5529 USB LaunchPad. The code was derived from a pre-existing Arduino sketch from Adafruit. They’ve got a tutorial on this technique with an arduino here. The food that Trey cooked with it, a […]
Losing to My High School Class a Big Win
Recently I switched careers from designing industrial food and dairy equipment to teaching industrial technology in a high school. While planning this move and taking night classes, I read quite a bit about authentic instruction where the students engage in real projects that end with something tangible and with real criteria for success. With the […]
Voxel8 3D Prints Circuits Into Your Objects
Several groups have begun exploring 3D printed electronics, and Autodesk has just joined them