A little background: I’ve designed what is, among other things, a little tiny VHF radio modem for goTenna, a Brooklyn hardware startup. It’s a very demanding design, with tight limits on battery life, size, shape, range, power — everything you can think of is at the edge of what can be done. The point of […]
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There is a new Arduino GSM Shield that connects an Arduino Uno, Mega, or Leonardo to the GSM cellular network, enabling you to make and receive phone calls and SMS. I can’t wait to see all the cool projects that come out of this technology!
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Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, uploaded by Addie Wagenknecht, who identifies it as a “speed project” by her studio Nortd labs (her partner in which is Stefan Hechenberger), under the auspices of her/their ongoing residency at Carnegie Mellon’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. If you’re confused, just click through…
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Texting Trapper: a project to detect when a call, text, or email is made from a cellular device.
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I believe Los Angeles artist Jeff Cook’s medium is correctly described as marquetry (“the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns, designs or pictures”) rather than parquetry (“very similar in technique to marquetry: in parquetry the pieces of veneer are of simple repeating geometric shapes, forming tiling patterns”). But it’s an interesting question…
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While it would be very useful, the thought of putting my Arduino projects on the GSM wireless network intimidates me a bit. Luckily, John Boxall of tronixstuff walks us through the process in part one of his Sparkfun GSM Shield tutorial. He breaks down how to dial a number and send a text message by […]
Continue ReadingWashington, DC artist Michele Banks, aka Artologica, is a painter who, in her own words, “uses an old and often-disrespected medium, watercolor, to create pieces that are anything but old-fashioned.” Her works in Makers Market focus on biological and medical themes, particularly the microscopy of living cells. Shown above is Cell Division Blue 1, a […]
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