Mercury News on a new homebrew cell phone club – “A small band of tinkerers with that old Silicon Valley can-do spirit say they are determined to build a better cell phone, whether wireless companies like it or not….This time around, the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club’s beef is that today’s cell phones are not as […]
Last year, MAKE magazine approached “MakingThings” to create the MAKE Controller Kit, a next-generation family of modular, programmable controller boards. We were delighted, and we’re even more delighted to announce that the kit is now available! The kit appears in MAKE 06 and it’s now available in our store! Wide-ranging fields have been revolutionized — […]
MAKE 06 is shipping, lots of robot projects, it’s my favorite MAKE so far! – In this volume build a pair of electronic insects, BEAM robotics, VEX robotics, make a soccer playing robot, T-Shirt laptop pouch, make LED throwies, 3D photos, MAKE controller, RFID for Makers, make a rumble mouse, read Xerox codes, rodent-powered nightlights, […]
We’re going to try the new Skypecast at 8pm PDT tonight, a few folks asked if it works on a Mac and so far it seems to work fine for me – Link.
MAKE volume 06 is hitting mailboxes really soon! In this issue – Build a pair of electronic insects. LED throwies. Rodent-powered nightlight. Floating tower structure. Bug Sucker. Check out the article listing here – Link. You can use our special code CMAKE and get an extra $5 (USD) off on a MAKE subscription here – […]
If you’re in Vegas stop by Interop, booth 412 and say hi – bring your projects too! We’ll be here most of the week!
LEGO isn’t messing around, they’re open sourcing their firmware for their processor – “The LEGO Group today announced that for the first time it will release as open source the firmware of the LEGO MINDSTORMS microprocessor – the new NXT brick – the core component of its next generation robotics toolset. Additionally, the company announced […]
