Kyle Machulis — Hardware Hacker
Reverse engineering guru works to unlock our personal data.
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Continue ReadingHere’s what gets me excited about making: it lets you build stuff the way we build software.
Continue ReadingRecently, while looking online for woodworking tools appropriately sized for my preschool daughter, I was intrigued by one kit that promised “real” construction play. Real: yes. Realistic: no.
Continue ReadingMechanical engineering student Charles Guan built a homemade Segway, called the Segfault, with some rather impressive geek cred. It uses absolutely no software, microprocessors, or other digital logic.
Continue ReadingI had tried to stop making musical machines but kept getting offers I couldn’t refuse. I thought I’d quit this crazy business if I could just pull off one last job — the big one. Then I met Björk at the MIT Media Lab. She needed some musical robots. This was big.
Continue ReadingBrothers Michael and Kenny Ham have a goal: to create cheap electric vehicles that get people interested in renewable energy. In 2009, they built Three-Wheeled Electric Alternative by KinAestheticWind (TWEAK), a solar-powered three-wheeler.
Continue ReadingIn a public park near the German city of Essen, on redeveloped industrial land about 30 miles east of the Dutch border, there is a very unusual hotel.
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