Reviews

OLPC vs Kindle

OLPC vs Kindle

Mike @ Radar has a good review comparing the OLPC and Amazon’s Kindle… different devices, but Mike as you’d expect (O’Reilly/Safari) is looking at these for reading books… Both the Kindle and OLPC can browse the Web. However, the Kindle was designed to browse Amazon’s library of content to purchase. The OLPC has a Firefox […]

SketchUp book!

SketchUp book!

PC World has a review of a new SketchUp book, SketchUp is a free and popular 3D tool for designing objects, buildings and more… Phil writes – Remember when your high school English teacher explained that every word in the sentences you write needs to carry some meaning? While the rest of us missed that […]

Review – Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects

Review – Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects

We Make Money Not Art has a review our our new book Making Things Talk! – Link & more @ the Maker Store. Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. But recent innovations, such as open-source physical computing platforms with simple i/o boards […]