Internet of Things

All This Week: The Connected Home, the Internet of Things, and a Contest!

All This Week: The Connected Home, the Internet of Things, and a Contest!

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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Monday, Feb. 3, MAKE kicks off a week of projects, news, articles, and inspiration all about the “connected home”, how the Internet of Things and smart appliances are connecting us in new ways to where where we live, eat, and sleep. We’ll also be running a contest for the best connected home project.

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MakerBot + RaspberryPi + Google Chrome = HappyMaker!

MakerBot + RaspberryPi + Google Chrome = HappyMaker!

By Jason George

Jason George

Designing, Building, and Tinkering at TruthLabs in Chicago.

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We recently acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 here at Truth Labs. He is affectionately known as Arnold of Villanova II (Arnold for short). In the maker spirit, we rolled our own chrome extension to let us know what Arnold is up to. We used some cool tech – s3g Protocol, Raspberry Pi, Node.js and of course, Google Chrome Extensions. Here’s how we did it.

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The Thing System aims to Revolutionize Home Automation

The Thing System aims to Revolutionize Home Automation

By Michael Colombo

Michael Colombo

In addition to being an online editor for MAKE Magazine, Michael Colombo works in fabrication, electronics, sound design, music production and performance (Yes. All that.) In the past he has also been a childrens' educator and entertainer, and holds a Masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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The Thing System seeks to not only obey your commands, but communicate amongst its own devices.

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Hardware, Innovation, and Telling Stories

Hardware, Innovation, and Telling Stories

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop is about a lot more than hardware. It is a conference of stories, stories about the process of making and importance of interation. Tune in for presentations on social machines and sensors that are changing the way we live. https://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/

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Privacy No More? A Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things

Privacy No More? A Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things

By Keith Hammond

Keith Hammond

I'm projects editor of MAKE magazine.

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When your shoes can tell the Internet where they are and what they’re doing, personal privacy is on strange new ground. Keeping your personal data out of the wrong hands is shaping up to be an epic struggle.

Limor Fried and Phil Torrone at Adafruit Industries say the answer is easy: we need a Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things. And you can help write it.

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Look it up: Hackerspace and Internet of Things

Look it up: Hackerspace and 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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Amongst other new words joining the Oxford Dictionaries Online this month are the words hackerspace and Internet of things.

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