Make: Talk 014 – “Programming Your Home” Author Mike Riley
Our maker this week is Mike Riley. He’s the author of a new book called Programming Your Home: Automate with Arduino, Android, and Your Computer.
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Make: Talk 013 – Arts Refoundry Bronze Casting Workshops
Our makers this week are Kate Mayfield and Gordon Bowen, owners of the biodiesel-fueled Arts Refoundry in Los Angeles. A couple of weeks ago my 9-year-old daughter Jane and I took a bronze casting workshop at Arts ReFoundry.
Honor the Exotic Pliers
Please don’t call them “wire strippers.” The more PC term is “exotic pliers.”
Make: Talk 012 – Ayah Bdeir of littleBits.cc
Our maker this week is Ayah Bdeir, the founder and lead engineer of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets and makes it fun and easy to make interactive electronic projects.
“Design For Hack” in Medicine
MacGyvering nurses and Legos are helping to create MEDIKits for better health care.
How Toys Can Save Lives on CNN’s The Next List This Sunday (April 1)
CNN’s The Next List this Sunday, April 1, will profile Jose Gomez-Marquez, who hacks toys to make inexpensive and flexible medical equipment for developing countries.
Make: Talk 011 – Yury Gitman, Toy Inventor
Yury Gitman is a toy inventor and a product designer who teaches physical computing and toy design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York.
