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Category: Maker & Hobby

Maker & Hobby

  • Bill Godbout Perishes in Northern California’s Camp Fire

      People of a certain age, who mindfully lived through the early microcomputer revolution during the first half of the 1970s, know about Bill Godbout.…

  • Will Enthusiasts be Scrambling for your Designs in 50 Years?

    If you’re like me, you started building plastic model kits at an early age. It was one of the tributaries that became the river I…

  • A New Step Forward for 3D Printed Fashion?

    3D printed fashion is not new at this point. Printed accessories, jewelery, and even dresses have been showing up at Maker Faires, 3D Printing shows,…

  • What shape do you want your Pi?

    Raspberry Pi has been one of those events that leave you breathless. You will recall that the board was designed as a teaching aid, to…

  • Golgi Connects via Web APIs

    You may recall a discussion about Golgi’s role in the Internet of Things (IoT) this last summer. In effect, it served to enable device makers…

  • Redpine Gives Makers a “Future-Proof” IoT Platform

    Internet of Things (IoT) platforms have been a thing since we started talking about the IoT way back with our coverage of Ayla Networks. The…

  • The Internet of Lightbulbs

    Based on a solution just announced by CSR (now part of Qualcomm), you can outfit your new building with lights – and your network will…

  • Blue-Collar Sensors from Microchip

    In our coverage of sensors, we’ve seen increasing levels of abstraction as microcontrollers in or near the sensors handle the hard labor of extracting high-level…

  • Free RF Connectivity Tool

    While at the recent Sensors Expo, I had a conversation with Anaren that drove home a point: with all of the focus on all of…

  • Motion for User Interfaces

    We’ve looked before at ways of controlling machines with just your hands in the air, like you just don’t care. No touchy-feely, no mouse. Just…