Apple’s Invisible Chip: M Stands for “Magical?” – UPDATED: They Found It!
It didn’t take long for iFixit to teardown Apple’s new iPhone 5s, but what they found is perhaps less interesting than what they didn’t.
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Reverse Abstraction
The Reverse Abstraction series attempts to bridge the gap between human and computer languages by 3D printing traditional objects in dual forms: as the classical object and as the hexadecimal and binary codes that represent them.
Google’s Coder Teaches Web Basics with Raspberry Pi
The folks at Google’s Creative Lab took the wraps off of Coder this week. It’s a “free, open source project that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple platform that educators and parents can use to teach the basics of building for the web.”
The Arduino Yún 云 is Now Available
Announced earlier in the year at Maker Faire Bay Area the Arduino Yún, the first Linux-based Arduino board, is now available for purchase at a cost of €52 (approximately $69) from the Arduino store.
Privacy No More? A Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things
When your shoes can tell the Internet where they are and what they’re doing, personal privacy is on strange new ground. Keeping your personal data out of the wrong hands is shaping up to be an epic struggle.
Limor Fried and Phil Torrone at Adafruit Industries say the answer is easy: we need a Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things. And you can help write it.
A 14-Inch Hard Drive Clock
While clocks made out of dead hard drives area wonderful use for discarded hardware, here is a much more interesting hard drive clock brought to us by [Bob Alexander] and a 1970s era Honeywell computer.
In the 60s, 70s, and 80s, computers didn’t have small removable hard drives like we do today. Instead, the hard drive was an entirely separate unit that contained large platters – 14 inches across in the case of the Honeywell 200 he used in his youth. In a fit of nostalgia for his younger years, [Bob] bought two of these 14 inch platters on the Internet to turn into clocks.
Raspberry Pi Emulates a Retro Mac at 1/3 Scale
John Badger from RetroMacCast shows off his replica retro Macintosh which he built using sheet PVC and a Raspberry Pi.
