Waiting out an unfortunately lengthy shipment, Stockholm area maker Johan von Konow decided to build for his son a working set of augmented reality game pieces for the Cars 2 AppMATes game on his iPad. To achieve a faithful representation of the characters in the game, Johan modified a couple of PEZ dispenser tops approximately […]
Shawn Thorsson’s HALO First Aid Kit is cooler than merely a replica — it actually serves as a first aid kit. So the other day (which was a Wednesday in this case) I was suffering from some time alone with my macabre imagination and decided that I needed my first aid kit to be more […]
Marc de Vinck sent us a few more shots of the Romo phonebot. Like a lot of people at the show, Marc is aghast at the bloat of electro-plastic tchotchke (even by CES standards!) in the main hall (“endless Swarovski crystal iPhone cases”). But he says that Eureka Hall Tech Zone is where the best […]
Maker Shed’s Marc de Vinck sent us this pic from the Isotoner booth where they’re hawking their SmarTouch 2.0 glove “Now with 3rd finger function.” Woot. Why not make your own, use any gloves you like, and enable all the finger functions you like. Here, let Becky show you how…
It’s the Consumer Electronics Show, so there are a lot more gadgets for consuming than for making, but I did see a number of robots in the Robotics and Emerging Technologies Tech Zones. The robots could be categorized as: Roomba clones, none of which were readily hackable, big robots, several of which were oriented toward providing telepresence, small robots controlled by on-board smartphones communicating with other smartphones, and even smaller, simpler robots for kids.
Skip the crowds in the main store and instead go to Powell’s Books 2, pull up a Eames chair and geek out in the lounge with your fave tech books!
While we were working on our Make: Ultimate Kit Guide, we had an interesting thread of conversation on the merit of kits. Projects Editor Keith Hammond had some great, well-put points that we all agreed with. He ended up shaping his thoughts into the Welcome column of this special issue, and we wanted to share […]
