Arduino recently updated their small form-factor Arduino Mini and it’s now shipping from the Maker Shed. The Arduino Mini R05 is based on the same ATmega 328 processor as the Arduino Uno, but measures a scant 1.25″x0.73″ making it perfect for breadboards and embedded applications.
Turn faux fall leaves into a gorgeous autumn leaf bowl!
So long, October! Onward, now, into the eleventh month of our 2012 “Year of Materials” with a focus on paper. “Paper,” for those of you twelve and under, is a generally inexpensive, flexible, thin, sheet-like material made by pressing together moist fibers—commonly derived from plants—and allowing them to dry. “Plants” are living organisms, commonly green in color, with cellulose-containing cell walls, obtaining most of their energy through photosynth…
Chris “Akiba” Wang of Freaklabs and Tokyo Hackerspace is the brother of Mothership HackerMoms co-founder Sho Sho Smith, and he’s offering a couple of cool kits from his online store to support HackerMoms’ Kickstarter campaign. All proceeds will go to the moms! The first kit is the FabTile, a daisy-chainable LED board based off of […]
The folks over at iFixit go the extra mile to bring you the Microsoft Surface Tablet Teardown. Not your average piece of hardware, the Microsoft Surface is a slim entry into the already bloated tablet market–though a release that was eagerly anticipated and met with great enthusiasm. Getting inside the svelte confines of Surface enclosure proved to be and arduous task deftly performed by iFixIt’s crack team of teardown experts.
On Make: Live’s Hackerspace Roadshow episode, Becky and Matt visit with Hackerspaces from across the US. In this segment, they visit with i3 Detroit ( http://www.i3detroit.com/ ) in Ferndale, MI. This is an archived episode from Make: Live, which was originally broadcasted on 6/8/11. Go to makezine.com/live/ for information about the show, chat transcripts, and details on the next show.
On Make: Live’s Hackerspace Roadshow episode, Becky and Matt visit with Hackerspaces from across the US. In this segment, they visit with Milwaukee Makerspace ( http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/ ). This is an archived episode from Make: Live, which was originally broadcasted on 6/8/11. Go to makezine.com/live/ for information about the show, chat transcripts, and details on the next show.
