In this latest adafruit tutorial, Limor shows you how to create a “pager scanner” that allows you to feed incoming pager network data to a Windows computer over a serial port. It looks super easy to do and fun to see what you can still find on these data networks. Also check out her earlier […]
Last week, our guests on Make: Talk were Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne of Homegrown Evolution. We talked to them about their book, Urban Homestead (Process Media), their blog, and their urban farming efforts. A couple of good points were made: that you don’t have to do urban “homesteading” with any sort of crunchy-granola political […]
Last week, we had Nathan Seidle on the show, from SparkFun, talking about the company, how it all got started, and about the recent Autonomous Vehicle Competition that was just held at SparkFun HQ. SparkFun will, of course, be at Maker Faire, so look for Nathan and company there. Our Hosts Picks: As always, we […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Leadtowill posted this detail shot of a rather excellent mod/conversion – This was a cassette radio. I removed the motor etc and added an input to the amp section of the circuit, mounted a spring and converted the speaker to a driver with a knife – the result is a […]
Well, if Episode #005 was the Failure Episode, #006 was the show without a guest. Our scheduled guest, Jeri Ellsworth, was at Notacon. Wires got crossed and she thought the show was on Saturday. Luckily, the whole thing is very casual, so Dale, Mark, and I took it all in stride and just ran with […]
I managed not to screw up the second part of Episode #005 (finishing up our conversation with Tom Igoe) and it went off without a hitch. Audio is still problematic and I’m not sure we’re going to be able to do much about it. We’re at the mercy of whatever phone tech our guests call […]
I borked last week’s show 15 minutes into it. Amazingly, we were in the process of talking about failure and embracing it, learning from it. So we kept the episode. Listen to the brief discussion and then hear me muttering to himself as I try to fix my screw-up. Hilarity ensues. So, THIS week, we’ll […]
