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Hacked Machine Knits Custom Mathematical Scarves

Hacked Machine Knits Custom Mathematical Scarves

By Fabien Royer

Fabien Royer

Software developer, autodidact hardware hacker. Founder of two startups and Microsoft alumni. Making and hacking things has been my passion ever since I was a kid. I love discovering the work of other Makers and writing about their achievements. You can find out more about me here.

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Fabienne Serriere has created an knitting machine that turns algorithmically-generated patterns into unique scarves and wraps.

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Esquilo and the Internet of Things

Esquilo and the Internet of Things

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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There seems to be a new microcontroller board most days, and they all try and sell themselves on simplifying development for the Internet of Things. But the Esquilo may actually stand a chance of doing it.

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Sending Data Using Sound for the Internet of Things

Sending Data Using Sound for the Internet of Things

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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With the release today of a free SDK for iOS, Android, and Arduino you can now connect the Internet of Things, not with wires, but with sound.

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ProtoPalette EdTech CEO Will Pemble

Maker Entrepreneurs Shine at MakerCon Launch Pad

By Donald Bell

Donald Bell

I make stuff, play music, and sometimes make stuff that plays music. Fan of donuts, Arduino, BEAM robotics, skateboarding, Buckminster Fuller, and blinking lights.

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The premise of MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition is fairly simple. 10 Maker-based startups give a  five-minute pitch of their product or idea to a panel of five judges. The judges deliberate and award a grand prize ($5,000 and free booth space at Maker Faire) to the most promising company. But from what I saw today, […]

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Former Pixar Engineer Starts Her Own Electronics Company, Modulo

Former Pixar Engineer Starts Her Own Electronics Company, Modulo

Erin Tomson

By Erin Tomson

Erin Tomson

Erin Tomson has been working with electronics since she was a kid, starting with basic kits and radio shack tutorials in grade school and middle school, then PC-controlled robots in high school, and electronic art in college. A love of software and computer graphics took her to Pixar after college, where she worked as a Technical Director and Lead Engineer for over 12 years. Recently she left Pixar to focus again on physical computing.

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MakerCon was developed for Makers like Erin Tomson, someone who has an idea to make something better and wants to learn the process of taking that idea and developing into a product that creates value for the Maker community. As Erin tells us below, she came to MakerCon last year and it got on her […]

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Hex Cancels Second Kickstarter Campaign To Focus on Fixing First

Hex Cancels Second Kickstarter Campaign To Focus on Fixing First

By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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Last week, we wrote about FlexPV, an ambitious Kickstarter campaign by a team who many backers say failed to deliver on their first crowdfunded project, a copter called Hex. Since that post ran, FlexLab has cancelled FlexPV and says that before they pursue that project, they are going to make things right with Hex backers. […]

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