We’ve long been able to get Arduino and Android to talk to each other over Bluetooth (for example, see the Android Controlled 3D Printed Slalombot), but doing that with an...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Monday March 19th, 2012 3:30 PM
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile | 12 Comments
Drinking our tea in cozy confidence, we plugged the production samples into Arduino, put the unit on our fingertip, and casually looked at the screen for the Processing sketch to...
Posted by Joel Murphy | Friday February 17th, 2012 6:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, General, Maker Pro | 36 Comments
Remember Dazzle, the method of complex geometric camouflage painting introduced in WWI (designed to disguise the direction, size, and types of ships at sea)? Last year, New York University's ITP...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday January 4th, 2012 7:30 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Photography & Video | 5 Comments
SpaceCamps have been happening at Maker Faire Bay Area, Detroit, and New York. The point of SpaceCamp is to propagate the robustness and awareness of hacker- and makerspaces. Attending spaces...
Posted by Willow Brugh | Friday September 30th, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Education, Hackerspaces | No Comments
Phooky from NYC Resistor wrote about his hackerspace’s LED sign: It’s Hexascroller, your friendly neighborhood integrated clock/wireless notification system/annoying beep generation solution! Hexascroller was hacked together from donated LED panels...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday September 14th, 2011 5:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Hackerspaces | 2 Comments
Hackett is the founder and director of the Madagascar Institute, the Brooklyn “art combine” specializing in large-scale sculptures, guerrilla art events, and carnival rides from hell. He is also an...
Posted by Brookelynn Morris | Tuesday September 13th, 2011 4:30 PM
Categories: General, Makers | 5 Comments
If you’ve ever walked along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan during the holiday season, no doubt you’ve seen the incredible animatronic store displays in the windows of stores like Saks Fifth...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday August 20th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Robotics, Workshop | 3 Comments
New York City is often analogized as a "concrete jungle." For me that might be very fitting, as I often find myself hunting makers, But unlike a machete-wielding jungle-clearing Amazonian,...
Posted by Nick Normal | Wednesday August 17th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Makers | 4 Comments
UPDATE: Upon further reflection, I don’t recommend you actually try this hack, but rather follow the Cooking Issues blog if you’re curious how it turns out. This looks like a...
Posted by John Edgar Park | Sunday August 14th, 2011 2:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Food & Beverage, Hacks | 13 Comments
Admittedly the sign is no longer "floating," but I modified last week's Weekend Project, the Floating Glow Display, using an empty CD jewel case, and these are the results. I...
Posted by Nick Normal | Thursday August 11th, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: General | No Comments
I don’t know about you, but there’s something that delights me about using old and new technology together. Things like USB typewriters, twittering Teddy Ruxpins, and PayPal-accepting vending machines just...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday August 10th, 2011 7:30 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 9 Comments
A few years later, the Neutrinos drifted into Port Isabel, Texas where a 19 year-old college dropout named Constance Hockaday was living with her parents. Hockaday, a rather alienated young...
Posted by Nick Normal | Monday August 8th, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Energy, Home | No Comments
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