Giants of the Micros
The two inventors who fueled the rise of the living room helicopter.
Makers
Make: Money fundraising program
At the NYC FIRST Robotics Competition this past weekend, we launched an exciting new program to allow FIRST robot teams, and any other group or club, to raise funds by selling subscriptions to MAKE. Here’s how it works: You email your contact information to makemoney@makezine.com (see details on the card above). We send your group […]
DDIY: Don’t do it yourself?
I read recently an article in the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest by Lisa Anne Auerbach called “d.d.i.y. Don’t Do It Yourself:” D.I.Y. used to mean grabbing a Sharpieâ„¢ and starting one’s own revolution through words and actions. Now it means going into debt at mega-stores, consuming more and more materials manufactured overseas, raping the […]
Oomlout’s 3D traffic graph
To celebrate 60 days of web traffic on their site, open source kit makers Oomlout created a tangible graph using an acrylic base, hook-up wire, their automatic wire cutter, and some Arduino code. We’d like to think we had something to do with those long wires. 60 Day Anniversary More: Review: SERB Robot kit SERB […]
Maker Profile – Computer Making Music on Make: television
Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. Based at Stanford University, CCRMA teams composers, artists and acoustical researchers together to meld music with new technology and explore the outer limits of audio from playground-activated sounds to laptop orchestras. Then see the origins of the synthesizer.
Learn more about CCRMA at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/
Dan Kaminsky at HacDC tonight! (and a side order of Daemon)
Dan Kaminsky, the computer consultant who found a fundamental vulnerability in the Web’s DNS, so fundamental, it could have given him theoretical control over every domain on the Web, will be giving a last-minute talk tonight at HacDC. He’ll be talking about this amazing story as well as talking about some current research, to be […]
The Open Source Hardware Bank
Hey look, here’s a bank that’s not afraid to loan. Fascinating idea. Wonder if it’ll work? From: Why does Open Source Hardware need a bank? Right now, the status quo, emerging trend for OSHW DIY’ers has been: build something, put up a bunch of money to build a few of them, if people like it, […]
