Becky’s latest project over at adafruit shows off some of the possibilities of the cool surplus vending machine coin acceptors they just added to their catalog. It has an Arduino for brains, an LCD shield to report your balance, and an LED that makes piggy glow when you feed him the monies. The more loot in your hoard, the brighter he glows
Just watch it. And then thank Brooklynite Dave Rogge (aka Flickr user tgtsfkncld / Etsy seller thegarage) for the big grin on your face.
Some nice weekend coverage for our kissing cousins over at Adafruit, who are banking hard on the future of DIY wearable electronics with their new FLORA wearable Arduino-compatible microcontroller.
Out pals at adafruit have just released Circuit Playground, an app for iPhone and iPad that combines a bunch of handy electronics references and calculators in one attractive interface. It’s $2.99 from the AppStore. An Android version is reportedly in the works, but I understand the adafruit folks are not in too much of a […]
Last November, we asked for your help in getting MAKE pal Limor “LadyAda” Fried, founder of adafruit industries, nominated to Fast Company magazine’s list of “Most Influential Women in Tech” for 2011. Short version: We did it! Thanks for your help! Other notables on the list include MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal, Public Radio International CEO Alisa Miller, indie game developer Erin Robinson (of Adventure Game Studio), Twitter media partnership director Chloe Sladden, and HTC CEO Cher Wang. Congrats Limor!
Fast Company magazine, which has a pretty good track record of trying to give women a fair shake in the often-testosterone-heavy world of the technology business, is seeking nominations for “the most influential women in tech” to put on the cover in 2011. Past “cover girls” have included Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Rashmi Sinha, (Slideshare), Morgan Romine (Frag Dolls), Jill Tarter (SETI), and Clara Shih (Hearsay Labs).
I hereby nominate Limor Fried.
MIT Media Lab alum, Eyebeam fellow, recipient of the EFF Pioneer award, entrepreneur, open source advocate, bad-ass engineer, founder of adafruit industries–Ladyada belongs on that cover if anyone does. To chime in with your support, go leave a comment over at Fast Company, or on their Facebook page, or tweet #wit11. Better yet, do all three!
A little stroke of marketing genius from Limor and Phil over at adafruit. Monsieur Ampère here was just released as a preview of their forthcoming E is for Electronics coloring book, in collaboration with illustrator Travis Pitts. A list of all the letters, and what they’re “for,” is here. They’re planning to have the books ready in time for Festivus.
