End Of An Era For Apple…
Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.
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Netduino Plus book from MAKE: Getting Started with the Internet of Things
Cuno Pfister’s Getting Started with the Internet of Things is now available in the Maker SHED. This new book from MAKE and O’Reilly shows you how to create cloud-enabled sensor networking projects with the Netduino Plus.
Russell the Electric Giraffe (video)
During Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, we caught up with Lindsy Lawlor, creator of one of the most popular attractions at the Faire– Russell the electric giraffe. With the help of his English programmer, also named Russell, the rolling, walking, talking giraffe bot gets better every year with new sounds, touch sensors, and lights.
Excellent Lego Robotic Arm
This Great Ball Contraption features an nicely designed robotic arm. [Via The NXT Step]
New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Mega ADK
The Arduino Mega ADK has been in the MakerShed a couple weeks now and we finally have sufficient quantities to blog about it. It looks just like an Arduino Mega 2560 except it has an integrated USB host controller and extra USB port making it Google ADK compatible! Lots of cool projects are being built around this board and Android phones. Don’t you want to get in on the fun?
Building your own Fritzing components
Today’s metaphorical yak is the representation in Fritzing of a $0.95 part, a knob potentiometer. Fritzing is a wonderful Open Source tool for designing electronic circuits. Its only shortcoming is that its library of components is not yet complete enough that it can be used to design all circuits. In my case, it’s lacking the SD card reader that I’m using, analog sticks and… this small $0.95 potentiometer. Well, in fact, for the potentiometer, I could have easily used one of the stock components from Fritzing that is close enough, but for my first component design, I wanted to start with a fairly simple part so I went ahead with it anyways, with the hope of having a better fit in the end.
How-To: Coffee Can Radar
The MIT Open Courseware (OCW) radar materials from Dr. Gregory L. Charvat (and peers) that Matt blogged about back in February have just been released! This is hands-on education that my father, for one, spent a few years of his life (and no small amount of money) to acquire at a fancy university in the late 1960s.