BeagleBoard.org launched the BeagleBone last October as an inexpensive, hacker-friendly variant of the BeagleBoard. The price ($89) and size (it comes with a custom Altoids-like tin) have attracted a small...
Posted by Shawn Wallace | Thursday July 12th, 2012 10:33 AM
Categories: General, Home | 25 Comments
It was a pleasure to present the Makey awards on the special Make: Live show at World Maker Faire NY 2011. There I met Tom Simpkins, accepting the award for...
Posted by Becky Stern | Friday September 23rd, 2011 3:45 PM
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We just got our first peek at the 2011 Makeys trophies, designed and printed by our pals at MakerBot Industries, and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Thanks...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 7th, 2011 9:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, General | No Comments
If you haven't already voted, please do! Thanks!
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday August 31st, 2011 6:00 AM
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The nominations are closed! The polls are open! Tell your friends, family, and co-workers! Come one, come all, and vote to determine which of our twelve nominees will receive the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday August 23rd, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: General, Home | 3 Comments
In April, 2009, Time Warner Cable, amid mounting concerns about flagging US competency in core technical areas, announced that it would be giving away $100 million to educational programs working...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday August 11th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Education, General | 2 Comments
Motorola's high-end Atrix 4G Android smartphone swept the awards at CES 2011, where it was introduced, taking home media awards from CrunchGear, IGN, Laptop Magazine, Maximum PC, MSN, Notebooks.com, Popular...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday August 4th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, General | 3 Comments
Founded in Shikuoza, Japan in 1946, Kabushiki gaisha Tamiya was originally a sawmill and architectural lumber company that made wooden ship models as a sideline. Their first plastic model, released...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday July 22nd, 2011 6:01 AM
Categories: General, Tools | 2 Comments
Founded in 1987 in Rocklin, California, Parallax, Inc. manufactures the famous BASIC Stamp microcontroller. The Stamp has been popular among electronics hobbyists since the early 1990s, thanks to such user-friendly...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday July 19th, 2011 1:16 PM
Categories: Electronics, General | 2 Comments
We were all pretty wowed back in January of last year when Parrot introduced their Parrot.AR quadrotor drone. Wowed because A) it's a quadrotor, and we're still kind of on...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday July 18th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: General | 4 Comments
And it's not just because the Android and Makeys mas-bots were apparently separated at birth. And yes, we know Android is technically an operating system, and Android-compatible phones are really...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday July 11th, 2011 9:07 AM
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Founded in Japan in 1962 by a nightclub owner and an accordionist, Korg has been designing, manufacturing, and selling electronic musical instruments since the beginning. Their products have introduced ground-breaking...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday June 30th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: General, Music | 7 Comments
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