Drone Flyers in Austin: Fly With Us at SXSW This Weekend
MAKE will be hosting a homegrown drone gathering at SXSW, and has saved space for a couple local enthusiast groups. Let us know if you’d like to hang out!
Technology
Talking to the Raspberry Pi with an FTDI Breakout Board
There are many ways of logging in to your Raspberry Pi without a monitor or keyboard. A convenient trick is to connect through the serial monitor that is listening on two of the GPIO header pins.
LED Rainbows and Knitting Machines at NY Fashion Week 2014
Yarn and sci-fi aesthetics were seamlessly joined together in a stunning show called M.A.G.I.K (Majestic Astral Glowing Iridescent Knitting) by knitwear designer Lindsay Degen during this year’s New York Fashion Week.
Counting Sheep at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree
Today at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree PiFace launched their new PiFace Real Time Clock module for the Raspberry Pi.
Pursuing Ping Pong Balls at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree
Will Jessop builds robots, and he’s hoping to crowdsource tidying his office of stray ping pong balls after tournaments. What could possibly go wrong?
Back to BASIC at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree
Taking the Raspberry Pi back to its educational roots, we talk to Jon Silvera about Fuze BASIC and the Pi in schools.
OpenKnit: An Open Source Knitting Machine
Makers create an open-source, low cost , digital fabrication tool that creates bespoke clothing from digital files.