Technology

Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 07, Raspberry Pi, Most Hackable Gadget

Makers, tinkerers, and hackers have latched onto the Raspberry Pi because of its price and capabilities. And with the enormous Linux community available for support, the pains of working with a new platform have been minimal. Since its release, we’ve seen a deluge of incredible projects that use the Raspberry Pi in creative and inventive ways and we’re only just getting started. It’s for this reason that we’ve nominated Raspberry Pi, the $35 Linux computer, for a Makey in the category Most Hackable Gadget.

Continue Reading August 22nd, 2012 Matt Richardson44

ROM Dumping Leads to Discovery of 25 Year Old Easter Egg

Adam Mayer and Trammell Hudson from NYC Resistor uncovered a series of photos stored in the ROM of an old Macintosh SE.

Continue Reading August 21st, 2012 Matt Richardson14

Top 10: 555 Timers

To mark the recent passing of Hans Camenzind, we are running a 555 mini-retrospective this week. Today I’ve rounded up some of my personal favorite 555 content from our archives, arranged in arbitrary top 10 order. Many of these are “fun” or “meta” 555 type posts. We’ll be following on later in the week with more circuit-specific 555 coverage. Stay tuned!

Continue Reading August 21st, 2012August 12th, 2015 Sean Michael Ragan8