Hans writes in – My toaster is hooked to the internet to tell the world when I am toasting and when my toast is done. The system uses the ioBridge module and event widgets and Twitter to echo the feedback from my toaster. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Creating a Maker Course In the next month or so I will have a semester change, and with it an opportunity to restructure the sequence of three courses. Robotics, Building and Repairing Computers and Web Design are three classes that I have taught before, and am looking to streamline the content of the courses. The […]
Google Zeitgeist 2008 is up, here are the top 10 “DIY searches”… DIY (Do It Yourself) diy wedding diy tv diy solar diy tile diy audio diy home diy halloween diy electric diy concrete diy car A lot of people come to the MAKE sites looking for these, here are some of what they’ll find! […]
Ross writes – This project is a python script that outputs facebook status updates to an arduino connected serial LCD. It is really just an rss reader, so it could be set up to parse just about any rss feed from weather to stocks to email. Very cool and useful! Read his detailed how-to to […]
This is fun and useful… Navigate Flickr by color! We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting†Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour
Brennon Williams sent us a link to his blog, BW Science Labs, where he explores science and technology. I really liked this LED constellation project, but you should check out the rest of his entries – he posts about microcontrollers, basic soldering, robotics, lots of stuff! Really impressive work for a 14-year-old!
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