The Engadget Show: Kindle etching and DIY adventures with Adafruit Industries. Some footage and a tour of the show at Adafruit, I hang out there quite a bit :) Josh writes – If you’ll recall, some months ago we held a little competition for readers to submit artwork destined for laser-etching on the backsides of […]
Chris (DIY drones, Wired, MAKE 19) is making the rounds with “Atoms are the New Bits” – here is an overview of his talk, sounds excellent – The Web revolution is hitting the real world. “We are entering a new manufacturing age,†said Anderson. “I’ve been thinking about being analog and the world of manufacturing.†[…]
[Editor’s note – ThinkGeek resolved this issue perfectly and immediately, nicely done. Feel free to read the details below – pt] I received the new ThinkGeek catalog today, I really like them and their stuff – they’re one of the best geek culture curator shops online, as well as developing their own merchandise. That said […]
Though it’s understandably not a high priority for most electronics manufacturers, the aesthetic quality of a circuit board can be pretty important to those of us hacker/maker/experimenter types who often end up using electronics sans enclosure. Seeed Studio pushes the envelope a bit with their multi-solder-mask Rainbowduino – Nobody knows what it will be like, […]
The CrunchPad, named Popular Mechanic’s 10 most brilliant products of the year (although it never came out) is not happening. Mike writes – The entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication… I’m enraged, embarrassed, and just…sad. I bet there’s more to this story… Here’s what Ladyada who makes hardware thinks… […]
The Therething is an open source MIDI controller based on an Arduiono.
Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware @ WSJ.com… The main producer of the Arduino is Smart Projects Snc, based in the tiny town of Scarmagno, Italy. This year, the two-person firm is on track to sell at least 60,000 of the microcontrollers, which retail for at least $30 a piece, up from 34,000 last year. […]
