Holiday Gift Guide 2013: The Kano Christmas Special
Remember the Kano Kit we featured a last week? This week they’re doing a Christmas special.
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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. Hereโs how we did it.
The Kano KitโBuilding a Raspberry Pi Computer
The Kano Kit takes the Raspberry Pi back to its roots and earlier today I talked to Alex Klein, co-founder of Kano Computing, about the kit, why they put it together, and their Kickstarter campaign.
Two Million Raspberry Pis in the Wild
Here’s some breaking news from the Manchester Raspberry Jam: Eben Upton, head of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, just revealed that as of the end of October, there are now two million Raspberry Pis out in the wild. In early 2013, the Raspberry Pi foundation sold its millionth unit through its official distributors and early last […]
Smart Metering for Makers?
In the closing hours of their Kickstarter campaign, Neurio is a smart meter with a difference. It doesn’t just monitor how much energy your homes is using, is tries to figure out the cost of running individual appliances.
Make Your own Cloud With Raspberry Pi and arkOS
Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Cook is on a mission to help you create your own small piece of cloud on the internet, freeing you from other providers for services like file storage and sharing, web hosting, e-mail, calendars, music, and photos. His project, ArkOS, is built to run on the Raspberry Pi, which means there’s only a small investment to get a server up and running in your home. It’s a Linux distribution that includes a web-based interface to serve and manage self-hosted cloud services.
Sea Slugs Take the Title at Inaugural Raspberry Pi Make: Off
In front of a packed house at Engadget Expand, The Sea Slugs took the title for the first-ever Raspberry Pi Make: Off. Their web-based wireless device locator impressed the judges for its ambitiousness and resourceful use of materials, many of which were taken from the show floor at the Jacob K. Javits Center. For winning, […]
