Photo from Museum of Retro Technology Years ago, I came upon The Victorian Internet by Tom Stangadge. It’s a fascinating read, telling the tale of how the world was girdled by copper wires carrying text messages to far flung places. The Victorian Age’s instant messaging system allowed geography and time to be compressed through the […]
Straight out of the 2005 archives, the Mod Your Rod special section in MAKE Volume 03 has got to be one of my favorites of all time.
(image of solar-powered 802.15.4 node from Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk) The Christian Science Monitor has an article on wireless sensor networks being used to sense and gather data from the environment: The hand-sized yellow objects poking up among the lush canopies at Camalie Vineyards aren’t a new variety of monster grape. They’re electronic devices […]
The “CubeCheater” iPhone app allows you to take a picture of your existing puzzle and the application will walk you through the solution to the puzzle. Although we’re not sure if we want to encourage cheating here at Make, we like the ingenuity of apps like this that mathematically deconstruct objects in order to find […]
We’ve all had this problem before: Our parents call us up in dire need of “tech support” for their “new fangled gadgetry” that they can’t seem to figure out how to operate. I know this happens to me every month or so, or whenever I go home. In response to this, Dan O’Sullivan (co-author of […]
This art installation called “Beacon” creates a kinetic light space that has integrated AI so that it interacts with visitors and its surroundings. Consisting of hundreds of modified emergency beacon lights, the project aims to create an immersive space that is navigable to visitors by sensing their position from the motion of the lights. Check […]
Got an extra router in your parts pile? How about an wifi enabled robotic car? Wifi Robot: A remote control car that can be driven over the internet or with a laptop wirelessly from up to 500m away. It has a live-feed network camera so that it can be driven without line of sight and […]
