Posts with «maker news» label

Simone Giertz Joins “Tested,” Builds Popcorn Feeding Helmet

Crappy robot maker, techno-humorists, and all-around awesome human, Simone Giertz, builds a popcorn helmet with Adam Savage.

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Microduino Unveils Stackable LittleBits Alternative

mCookies are the stackable, Arduino-compatible circuit boards that look like Microduino's answer to LittleBits.

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Arduino Announces New IoT Board, Gives Away 1,000

Arduino just released a new board and partnered with Microsoft to ask you for your best project.

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Create Big Music Mashups on This Enormous MIDI Sequencer Board

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but for an interactive sound work called GRIDI a picture is worth infinite midi loops!

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CNN Shows Adafruit Part During Bombing Segment

A sharp-eyed Twitter user noticed that during a breaking news segment about the crash of the Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 in Egypt this week, CNN briefly displayed an Adafruit Industries component while discussing the possibility that an Isis bomb might have brought down the aircraft. Adafruit is an open-source hardware company that sells Arduino, […]

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Arduino Software Update Introduces Command-Line Tool, Serial Data Plotter

Arduino releases version 1.6.6 of their IDE software, adding new tools and features for programming Arduino-compatible microcontrollers.

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Makeblock: A Construction Set for the 21st Century

Makeblock founder, Jasen Wang, talks about the growing role of the Maker Movement in China.

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OpenBCI Launches New, Hackable Brain Computer Interface

For Connor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, designing a brain-computer interface is not the stuff of science fiction, it is their day job.

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Microsoft Announces Windows IoT Support for Arduino and DragonBoard

Microsoft is getting their latest OS into the Maker scene through SBC integration. Their latest update adds support for Arduino and Dragonboard.

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$30 Gets You the Sensor-Packed, Curie-Powered Arduino 101

Today at the Rome Maker Faire, Intel and Arduino are announcing a new board, the Arduino 101, powered by the Intel Curie module.

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