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More and more books keep being released about our favorite little microcontroller, the Arduino. Apress offers a new one tomorrow entitled Arduino Robotics. Written by Josh Adams, John-David Warren, and Harald Molle, it’s is a monster 628 pages…
Clever idea from Japanese firm SoftEther, whose press release is available in English onlyvia machine translation as of this writing. The video pretty much conveys the idea, however. QUMA is rather like an artist’s figure-drawing mannequin with sensors in the joints that report all the articulations through a USB cable. Appropriate software can then position a character’s rigging to match, which seems like it would be both faster and more intuitive than dragging bones around a screen with a mouse.
Check out this week’s highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool! My personal favorite comes from user maushammer, who photographed the scariest NFPA diamond I’ve ever seen at the Boulder Hazardous Materials Management Facility.
Limor was getting ready for the electronics show and tell tonight and Google suspended her profile. For “violating Google’s Community Standards” – Here’s a note from her… Google suspended my Limor Fried “Ladyada” Google+ profile, no show-and-tell tonight… It’s my real name, a picture of me – my posts and my nickname. I made sure […]
This little guy is awesome. Look at him go! From Sandia National Labs…
I’m a fan of the Mac Mini. It’s not a powerhouse, but it serves well as a media hub. I’ve tried numerous set top boxes, but nothing compares to the versatility of the tiny aluminum slab. If you’re interested in taking a peek inside one, our friends over at iFixIt have done the hard work and posted a teardown detailing some of the finer points in this new release.
As I spoke to more makers, it started to become clear that Google+ Hangouts might just be the “next hackerspaces” — not in meat space but in the online world where skill sharing, project sharing, and collaboration can finally happen (more easily). There were are other ways to do this, but Google+ Hangouts seem to be the shiny new toy at the moment.
