The Last Generation of Engineers
Why digital rights management kills innovation.
Technology
Retrocomputing — The Laptop That Wouldn’t Say Die
Twenty-two years later, people still love the TRS-80 Model 100.
R2-DIY
The galaxy’s most lovable robot inspires its fans to clone him.
Ooz and Oz
Hacking robot toys is all in a day’s work for Natalie Jeremijenko. Dale Dougherty trails the UCSD professor for a day of fun at the races, transforming toy robotic dogs into environmental avengers.
Radio Shack Robots
About a year ago I was at Radio Shack headquarters hanging out with my friend and Make pal Dave, while there I saw the now released Vex Robotic Kits in early development. The cool thing, amongst other cool things about these robotic kits is that they were specifically designed to be used in the FIRST national high-school science competition (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). We’ll try and do a review of these here right away. I’m so thrilled to see these. PC Magazine article here, along with photos here.
Bunnie’s Workbench — Glowstick a Go-Go
Bunnie Huang prototypes two kinetic glowsticks: instead of creating a single arc of light, glowsticking dancers can now create their own two-dimensional fantasias.
Homebrew—My First Computer
Remembering how my dad built an Apple II from scratch.
