This Microcontroller Will Let Non–Coders Hack Anything
The Arduino board has been the go–to out–of–the–box hacker project darling, but for some applications, its days are looking numbered. A new wave of microcontrollers that interpret JavaScript right on...
View ArticleHow Hackers Can Infiltrate A 3–D Printer
As the 3–D–printing revolution barrels forward, things are going to get pretty interesting. I don't just mean in a you–can–print–new–organs kind of way. For every gee–whiz advance in the technology,...
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A Student–Built Autonomous Drone Boat Is Crossing The Atlantic Right Now, And...
Just over 100 miles out from the coast of Rhode Island, an autonomous drone boat called Scout has already broken records for the farthest unmanned voyage, and its designers hope to set a much bigger...
View ArticleCyberskin Will Give You Real–Life Spidey Sense
Robot sex dreamers, amputees, Spider–Man fans, and heart surgeons, take note: Cyborg skin is closer to becoming reality than most of us realize, and it could change the way we interact with each other...
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Finally, An Affordable 3–D Printer Big Enough To Print More Than Trinkets
For the wide range of 3–D printers on the consumer market today, precious few have the baseplate size to print more than trinkets (only one in our recent roundup could even fit an 8.5"x11" sheet of...
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E–Books Could Be The Future Of Social Media
"I'll give up my printed books when you pry the last one from my cold, dead hands."That's what I tell people when they ask me what kind of e–reader I have. As a technology journalist, author, and...
View ArticleDoes Nasdaq's CEO Understand Computers At All?
It's shocking to be reminded of how little people understand software. After the Nasdaq stock exchange paused trading for three hours on August 22, an incident now being called the "flash freeze," wild...
View ArticleAnother Desktop Factory Promises To Print And Mill Its Way Into Your Heart
Earlier this week we covered MEbotics, a company that's well on its way to launching a Kickstarter for the Microfactory, its work–safe 3–D printing/milling/crafting desktop machine. But it looks like...
View ArticleWhy The Next Big Thing In Computing Is Conversation
Not so long ago, using the Internet meant one thing: sitting at a desk, at home or at work, in front of a personal computer. The user might have had different purposes in their use of the web, but much...
View ArticleHow To Recruit And Run A Remote Team
More than money people, especially makers and creators, want flexibility when it comes to work. They want the freedom to work from wherever they want, and whenever they want. This is the credo of a...
View ArticleGraphene Really May Be The Secret To Post–Silicon Chips
Silicon chip tech? Bah humbug. For the future of computer power, you may have to look no further than the graphite in the pencil in your desk drawer.There's some really very clever innovation going on...
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More Than An Office, Teenage Engineering's Minimalist Garage Is A Tinkerer's...
Teenage Engineering's office doesn't have a doorbell. You knock on a garage door, which is hauled aside to reveal something like a Batcave, if the Batcave had been designed by a committee of minimalist...
View ArticleDigitize Your Large–Format Film At A Fraction Of The Price With This DIY Scanner
Until now, if you wanted to step up from desktop scanners to professional film negative scanning, you needed to be willing to drop a pretty penny. That's why these hackers bolted together their own DIY...
View ArticleWhat You Missed: September 4, 2013 Edition
Honey I Shrunk the ComputerThis hobbyist built a 1/3 scale 128k Apple computer. He calls it Mini–Mac.Aereo Has Time On Its SideWith a Supreme Court Ruling unlikely before 2015, the live television...
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Betting On Yahoo's New Logo? Here's What The Data Says They'll Choose
Tomorrow, Yahoo will reveal its new, permanent logo after spending the last month unveiling a different version of its iconic mark every day. The "30 Days Of Change" campaign has been called everything...
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Want More Women In Your Software Company? It Starts With One
In an industry which constantly wrings its hands about how impossibly difficult it is to find female engineers, a startup called Levo League has built a majority–female development team without even...
View ArticleWhy Spotify Connect Reminds Us Of Microsoft Windows In The 1990s
At first blush it might appear that Spotify Connect, the company's new play for direct hardware integration, is aimed squarely at Apple's AirPlay. Connect works a lot like AirPlay, except that the...
View ArticleNASA's New Quarter–Gigapixel Hyperwall Will Display Epic Earth And Space...
While most of us are busy wondering what will happen to post–space shuttle NASA in the age of the sequester, the agency is chugging right along, producing wonders like the Hyperwall 2, a giant...
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A Music Geek's Guide To iPad Synthesizer Hardware
The iPad should make for a terrible musical instrument. As marvelous as it can be for everyday tasks, the small–ish multitouch screen lacks the tactile feedback you normally get when you play music....
View Article"Manga Generator" Uses The Kinect To Put Your Smooth Moves In A Custom Comic
Smartphone apps that turn photos into manga–style black and white pics are all the rage in Japan, but they don't offer much beyond illustrated selfies. The Shirai Lab at the Kanagawa Institute of...
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