Skywalker vs. Stormtrooper: Endor Speeder Bike Quadcopter Battle
The Star Wars Speeder Bike toy hacker is back with the iconic good guy Jedi
Month: April 2015
Keep the Bugs Out of Your Beverage
Summertime cup covers up to keep the bugs at bay from your beverage.
Rockin’ 26’ Drivable Bumbleebee Shoots Fire from Its Antennae
The buzz about this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area is that a sweet, bee-themed art car called Apis Inlusio will be there. Lovingly built by a group of self-taught Burning Man veterans appropriately known as BeeCharge Camp, the Apis Inlusio combines the kind of whimsical inspiration and impressive ingenuity that epitomizes the spirit of Maker […]
New Equity Crowdfunding Platform From JD.com
JD.com, a notable rival to Chinese ecommerce behemoth Alibaba, launched a funding site last week called JD Equity Crowdfunding. JD’s first experiment in crowdfunding, Coufenzi is like Kickstarter in that it lets individuals fund products; JD Equity is instead aimed at entrepreneurs looking for early investors, with the goal of creating a “complete ecosystem for […]
Drone Privacy Lawsuit Seeks Tighter FAA Restrictions
Just weeks after releasing preliminary rules for drone regulation, the FAA is facing a lawsuit. The Electronic Privacy Information Center’s lawsuit asks the Washington, DC federal appeals court to declare the regulations unlawful due to the lack of privacy protections, and alleges that the proposal is not comprehensive enough to allow for the safe use […]
Facebook Joins IoT Race with Parse SDK Launch
Facebook joined the ranks of large companies betting on the Internet of the Things by launching an SDK for the internet of things under the banner of Parse, a mobile development platform it acquired in 2013. “We believe that connecting more hardware devices with the cloud has the potential to change the world for the better,” wrote […]
The Bloomiere Casts Gentle Light, Or Blossoms Into Shade
Previous prototypes entered in the Pitch Your Prototype challenge have included an inexpensive medical device, educational kits and even an agricultural robot that plucks individual weeds out of the ground. A new entry, Bloomiere, takes the contest in another direction with a conceptual prototype that bridges elements of lighting design, city planning and art. The prototype, called Bloomiere, responds to […]