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Turning Coders into Makers at JSConf 2014

Turning Coders into Makers at JSConf 2014

By Ian Cole

Ian Cole

Ian is a co-founder of The Maker Effect Foundation, a non-profit group organized to amplify the effects of makers within their communities. The Maker Effect Foundation's programs include Maker Faire Orlando, and MakerFX makerspace in Orlando. Ian is also a board member of Nation of Makers, and a member of FamiLAB, Orlando's Hackerspace.

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By giving software developers the challenge (and help) to build a bot, boat, or rocket in a day, JSConf is turning web developers into hardware makers.

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Building robots and rockets with Javascript

Building robots and rockets with Javascript

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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The web developers are coming, and they’re bringing Javascript frameworks that let you build robots and rockets more easily.

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A new micro-controller board at the Saint Malo Mini-Maker Faire

A new micro-controller board at the Saint Malo Mini-Maker Faire

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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Uroš Petrevski and Draško Drašković, two makers from Paris, used the Saint Malo mini-Maker Faire to unveiled a new board, the WeIO.

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