You know that whole thing about switching the site over this AM and the fragility of meatbots? Funny story… — Gareth Hello everyone, I’ve been dragged out from beneath my desk to write this letter to you all, and then, I will crawl back there and not come out until I see my shadow, or […]
As we mentioned on Friday, we’re moving the MAKE and CRAFT sites this weekend and switching to different blogging and commenting software. Comments are now turned off until the change-over is complete, sometime early Monday morning. Our service droids are working tirelessly around the clock — oh, wait, service droids won’t be available for another […]
And now, a word from our esteemed (and ever-so-awesome) Director of Technology, Stefan Antonowicz, on our upcoming site migration. — Gareth Hi Everyone, Over the weekend, we’re going to be transitioning the MAKE and CRAFT blogs from Movable Type to WordPress. Unfortunately, MT hasn’t been cutting it for us lately, and the requests and frustrations […]
Announcing the Maker Shed Deal of the Day! Each day we are going to feature an amazing deal for our customers. Trust us, they’ll be deals that you don’t want to miss. We even set up an RSS feed of our daily deals. Just a couple of clicks and you will get your daily dose […]
OK, so maybe the Digital Manufacturing Analysis, Correlation and Estimation Challenge isn’t as sexy as your grand robot challenges or your race to space prizes, but hey, if you’re into digital manufacturing, and are excited by the idea of using crowdsourcing to advance knowledge of the field and to explore the capabilities of DM, then […]
We’re getting down to the final days in the data logger build/contest, and things are starting to get exciting! Pictured above is the data logger built by Shazamp, who was one of the first people to share their build. There has also been a flurry of activity in the Forum. First, Jim of JESelectronics wrote […]
In the final newsletter for the datalogger build, we look at just how much power our project uses, what that means in terms of battery life, and then cover a few ways to drastically cut down on its energy consumption.
