Steve Norris’s PatrolBot Mark II
This gorgeous robot patrols Steve Norris’s yard, and honks its horn and squirts water when it spots an intruder.
Technology
Food Makers: Live and Online Nov. 7 at 2pm PST/5pm EST
This week on Food Makers, a weekly Google+ hangout on air, I’ll be talking to members of Re:Farm the City. Re: Farm is an international collective started by Spain’s Hernani Dias. Members develop open source hardware and software for urban farmers.
The Observer Embraces the Raspberry Pi
British newspaper The Observer checks out the RaspPi and asks the question: “Will it encourage kids to teach themselves code, or just end up in the hands of nerds?”
3D Robotics Raises $5 Million in Funding
Last week Wired’s Chris Anderson announced he’s leaving the editor-in-chief post to become 3D Robotics’ full-time CEO. Today, Chris announced that his company secured $5 million in VC funding.
Make: Talk 016 – Joel Murphy, Co-Creator of the Pulse Sensor
In this episode of the Make: Talk podcast I interviewed Joel Murphy. He’s an artist living in Brooklyn and owns a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designers.
Jeri’s Short Circuit: A One-Bit ADC
We love Jeri Ellsworth’s electronics videos and have missed them of late (as she’s made the move from Oregon to Washington to work at Valve Software). She’s baaaaack! And with a cool, simple circuit for building a 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a single flipflop IC (such as a 74LS*) to do the sampling. If […]
How to Hack an Election: A Cautionary Tale
Roger Johnston is head the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory. He and his colleagues recently launched security attacks on electronic voting machines to demonstrate how easy it is to steal votes. Conclusion: It’s really easy. And cheap.