3D Robotics Raises $5 Million in Funding
Last week Wired’s Chris Anderson announced he’s leaving the editor-in-chief post to become 3D Robotics’ full-time CEO. Today, Chris announced that his company secured $5 million in VC funding.
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Make: Talk 016 – Joel Murphy, Co-Creator of the Pulse Sensor
In this episode of the Make: Talk podcast I interviewed Joel Murphy. He’s an artist living in Brooklyn and owns a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designers.
Jeri’s Short Circuit: A One-Bit ADC
We love Jeri Ellsworth’s electronics videos and have missed them of late (as she’s made the move from Oregon to Washington to work at Valve Software). She’s baaaaack! And with a cool, simple circuit for building a 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a single flipflop IC (such as a 74LS*) to do the sampling. If […]
How to Hack an Election: A Cautionary Tale
Roger Johnston is head the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory. He and his colleagues recently launched security attacks on electronic voting machines to demonstrate how easy it is to steal votes. Conclusion: It’s really easy. And cheap.
Pi-Powered Video Viewer
Simon de Bakker and Jon Stam built this video viewer which allows you to view movies off of a flash card, one frame at a time. The Bioscope uses a Raspberry Pi with a custom shield, and the case was 3D printed. Inspired by an early movie projector of the same name, the Bioscope is […]
Getting Started With .NET Gadgeteer Webcast From Author Simon Monk
If you like making things, then you will love .NET Gadgeteer. You can create many interesting projects by just plugging together components and writing a few lines of programming code. Check out this upcoming hands-on webcast presented by Simon Monk, author of Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer: Thursday, November 8, 2012 (free registration).
Skittles Sorting Machine
Do you like your rainbow of flavor to be sorted by discrete wavelength? If so, then you’ll appreciate Brian Egenriether’s Skittles Sorting Machine 2. Using an IR LED and phototransistor to determine the appropriate color, a BASIC Stamp 2 controls three servo motors to actuate a turnstile and chute selector to deliver the identified confection to a predetermined collection bowl.