AIBO’s open-source successor?
AIBO’s open-source successor?
Month: September 2007
Now THAT’s a stash!
The pictures tell you pretty much all you need to know. Using your initiative – Link
Stitchable Arduino patches
We’ve mentioned Leah Buechley on the blog before. She’s a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado who does some really innovative things with soft circuits, LED clothing, and other geek couture. She writes of her most recent projects, the LilyPad: e-textile construction kit version 2.0 There is no reason for fabric […]
Introducing the robo-cane
The first thing I thought, seeing this project which turns an iRobot Create into a robotic cane for the blind, is that it’s a prime example of “inappropriate” technology. If you’ve ever seen a blind person use a cane, you can tell it’s this incredibly sensitive and nimble feeler, an extension of the person’s arm […]
Make a Foxhole Radio – Weekend Project Podcast
mp4 | mov | hd-appletv | youtube | blip | itunes | pdf coming soon During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen too. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You […]
DIY Halloween MAKE & CRAFT’s MASSIVE Halloween contest starts NOW!
Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. We’ll have lots of updates and posts regarding all these, but this announcement is to get you started and planning. We’re calling this year’s contests DIY HALLOWEEN. Last year’s were […]
How a quantum computer can factor a large number
An article today in New Scientist discusses two quantum computers, independantly built by two different research teams, that are capable of running Shor’s quantum factorization algorithm. The current machines are only large enough to factor a small number–in this case, the number 15–but assuming the engineering challenges can be overcome and a larger quantum computer […]