Jimmie Rogers designed this cool tattoo for his arm, which features the resistor code colors. However, Jimmie put a lot more thought into the design than just the colors: Most people tend to see just the rainbow, and that leads to lots of fun questions. I’m openly bisexual, and have done queer geeks panels at […]
As I prepare to leave Las Vegas, I want to wrap up our MAKE at CES 2013 coverage. Since Tuesday, I’ve spent a lot of time scouring the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center or packed elbow-to-elbow in the press room in an attempt to deliver stories with a maker’s slant. Going into this, […]
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, which is especially true on the floor of CES. Some of the most nondescript booths have some of the most amazing things and some of the largest, glitziest booths show nothing but ho-hum technology. In the former category, you have Leap Motion. Tucked in the […]
When consumer electronics products are opened up to third party developers, it’s a certainly a good thing for makers. In the Ford booth, they’re demonstrating the Sync AppLink API and The Ford Developer Program. The AppLink API lets you create mobile apps for iOS or Android and have them interface with Ford’s Sync voice controlled […]
Arboration controls a projected landscape based on the musical input of the user.
MAKE writer David Lang helped co-found OpenROV, the kickstarted remote-operated submersible project. One of the ROVs is currently in Antarctica (!!!) courtesy of Eric Stackpole, another of OpenROV’s co-founders. So I’ve got to run to catch our helo flight for today, but a window of opportunity came up on Wednesday which I took. I haven’t […]
Dave Bryan, who is a security penetration tester (and president of the Hack Factory), bought a Raspberry Pi a few weeks back and decided to use it to wardrive around Minneapolis. He took a RasPi Model B and added a 32-gig SD card, a ReaTek wifi adapter, a mag mount wifi antenna, a GPS receiver, […]
