Front Page News: Maker Faire North Carolina on Saturday
Raleigh-Durham’s largest newspaper features Maker Faire North Carolina and maker Dean Segovis’ new robot, Photon.
Technology
Omni Wheel Mobile Platform
German neurobiologist Malte Ahlers (who built a Kinect-equipped humanoid robot), sent us a progress report on his omni wheel robot. What’s especially cool about this project is that Malte really delves into how such a robot works: I didn’t want to just copy some code that I found somewhere on the internet but wanted to […]
RPi Geiger Counter
Chrono wrote in to share PiGI, a Geiger-Müller breakout board compatible with the RPi. The Raspberry Pi is a perfect platform to be a cheap but very versatile geiger counter. It can be connected to a TV/Monitor to display a nice graphical interface, it can play the nostalgic tak, tak, taktaktak sound via audio output […]
Teardown of Google Glass
A beautifully presented and detailed teardown of Project Glass by Scott Torborg and Star Simpson. With no idea what lay ahead they took apart, and then put back together, their Glass Explorer Edition.
Adafruit’s Kid’s Show Continues with ‘B is for Battery’
Learn all about batteries in the latest episode of Adafruit Industries’ Circuit Playground — Ladyada and Adabot make a lemon battery! The show is based on the coloring book E is for Electronics.
Maker Shed Exclusive: Make: Special Edition Arduino Unos!
We worked closely with the good folks at Arduino to bring you these Make: Special Edition Arduino Unos, now available in the Maker Shed! Functionally, they are identical to a regular Arduino Uno R3 (with SMD microcontroller) but feature exclusive Make branding to set them apart from the rest.
10 Hot New Boards to Watch
Over the last few months there have been a sudden rush of new micro-controller boards onto the market. A lot of that is down to Kickstarter and the appearance of a number slightly tweaked Arduino clones. A lot of them feature some sort of mesh networking, or other wireless capability. Here’s ten new boards that have just arrived, or are coming to market real soon, that you should maybe think about for your next project.
