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 […]
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, 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 […]
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, […]
This Friday, at 12pm Pacific (3pm ET), MAKE is launching a new Blog Talk Radio show, called Make: Talk, hosted by MAKE Editor and Publisher, Dale Dougherty, and MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder. Each week, they’ll have special guest makers on the show, talk about DIY projects, and what’s going on at MAKE magazine and Make: […]
With Tahoe having received a whopping near 4 feet of snow in the last 24 hours (!!!), my mind can’t help but to drift to Makers we’ve profiled in the magazine who fit the bill. In MAKE Volume 10, we featured the folks behind skibuilders.com: Kam K. Leang (Big Kam), Kelvin Wu, and Kam S. Leang (Little Kam). Taking it to the next level of DIY skiing is maker Troy Caldwell, who we featured in MAKE Volume 08.
While many of us wish we lived in the world promised to us by the sci-fi movies and shows we grew up with, so far, here in the 21st century, we have a robot that sort of vacuums an uncluttered living space and runty humanoid toybots that make fart jokes. Hey, it’s a start. But […]
