I saw this project “live” on latest google+ hangout “show-and-tell” (full vide here) it’s amazing and one of my favorite projects. It’s becoming possible for anyone with a business to make a custom solution like this that would normally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and require tons of staff to get right.
There have been a lot of developments over at Modkit since its introduction in MAKE Volume 25. The graphical drag-and-drop tool works in your browser now and allows you to program and control an Arduino and similar microcontrollers. You can still give the free tool a spin and test it out, but if you’re wanting to dig deeper and try some of the newer special features, you’ll need to sign up for the Alpha Club.
Yes, it does seem the Microsoft PR machine & (new) Kinect studio team is trying to take credit for the open source “Kinect hacking” community and says they purposely “allowed” hacking – the report ignores the efforts from all the open source Kinect hackers out there and how this all happened. They also left out the threatening and intimidating when Johnny Lee, Limor “Ladyada” and myself first started the Kinect bounty and got the open source drivers out there with Hector. When then all watched an amazing open source community flourish. It’s also a little confusing because Kinecthacks.net is not part of Microsoft in any way… WIRED has a full write up on the real story from the most recent issue.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has jumped on the OSHW bandwagon. Geneva, 7 July 2011. Four months after launching the alpha version, CERN has today issued version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. In the spirit of knowledge and technology […]
Adafruit’s Limor Fried on the D.I.Y. Revolution Limor Fried, an engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company, Adafruit Industries, discusses do-it-yourself electronics. Bloomberg’s special correspondent Tabitha Soren reports on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” Emily Chang also speaks. Maker businesses are getting a lot of action in the press lately!
Don’t miss your chance to submit a talk, breakout session, or project demo to the Open Hardware Summit 2011: The Open Hardware Summit (OHS) invites submissions for the second annual summit, to be held on September 15, 2011 in New York City. The Open Hardware Summit is a venue to present, discuss, and learn about […]
Things You CAN’T Do With The Microsoft Kinect SDK: You can’t start a business, make money, sell services or consulting, it’s all non-commercial and in my opinion, a dead-end for most/all developers. Can I use the SDK Beta to build applications that are used in-house in running my business, so long as I do not […]
