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Ralph Baer, Video Games Pioneer, Passed Away at 92

Ralph Baer, Video Games Pioneer, Passed Away at 92

By Nick Normal

Nick Normal

I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!

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The passing of a maker icon. Ralph Baer, inventor of the first video game console, passed away at the age of 92.

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Practice Your Service Return With This Arduino-Powered Automatic Ping-Pong Ball Machine

Practice Your Service Return With This Arduino-Powered Automatic Ping-Pong Ball Machine

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Friction wheel mechanism, frame made of VEX Robotics Design System components.

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Pursuing Ping Pong Balls at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree

Pursuing Ping Pong Balls at the Raspberry Pi Jamboree

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Will Jessop builds robots, and he’s hoping to crowdsource tidying his office of stray ping pong balls after tournaments. What could possibly go wrong?

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