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The Road to the I/O Sensor Network

The Road to the I/O Sensor Network

The long tale of the slippery path taking Alasdair Allan, Kipp Bradford, Julie Steele and Rob Faludi to Google I/O to build a distributed sensor network that turned into the talk of the conference.

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Ubiquity Robot Team’s “12 Tasks of Hercules”

Ubiquity Robot Team’s “12 Tasks of Hercules”

Got a passion project and want to build a team around it? Start in your makerspace! Dr. David Crawley desperately wanted to hack robots and build a useful platform, not an inexpensive toy that couldn’t do anything or a useful robot that few could afford. He wanted his to be inexpensive and capable. To pull this off he knew he needed passionate contributors with the right technical backgrounds so he joined Hacker Dojo.

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Maker Faire: Day One

Maker Faire: Day One

The first day of Maker Faire opened Saturday with an exuberant crowd of tinkerers, experimentalists, artists, hobbyists, and of course, makers.

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Arduino Announces New Wireless Linux Board

Arduino Announces New Wireless Linux Board

Today, Arduino announced a new family of wireless products that combine the Arduino architecture with Linux.

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Maker Faire for Start-Ups

Maker Faire for Start-Ups

The guys at Helios don’t have anything to sell at Maker Faire. Their “smart bike” handlebars won’t be available until the fall. But here they are, at Maker Faire, in a small booth with two prototypes bicycle handlebars mounted on bikes. They are engaging with a torrent of curious Maker Faire attendees: answering questions, demonstrating […]

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