GE Launches an Interface Board to Let You Hack Their Appliances
…and they’re giving away a batch of ovens and refrigerators to help launch the project.
Node.js
Turning Coders into Makers at JSConf 2014
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.
Building robots and rockets with Javascript
The web developers are coming, and they’re bringing Javascript frameworks that let you build robots and rockets more easily.
MakerBot + RaspberryPi + Google Chrome = HappyMaker!
We recently acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 here at Truth Labs. He is affectionately known as Arnold of Villanova II (Arnold for short). In the maker spirit, we rolled our own chrome extension to let us know what Arnold is up to. We used some cool tech – s3g Protocol, Raspberry Pi, Node.js and of course, Google Chrome Extensions. Here’s how we did it.
The Web Developers Are Coming?
Today I spent the day somewhere where you might not think to find makers: the Great British Node Conference. For those of you who haven’t come across it yet, node.js is a server-side solution for JavaScript—it’s an event-driven Javascript platform which does non-blocking I/O—and is rapidly gaining popularity, and mindshare amongst the web communit
