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Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write
The H Security: News and Features
6 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service,
Manufacturing the Future
cnbc.com
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
The 5 companies named as a CNBC Disruptors: 3D Robotics, Makerbot, Quirky, Shapeways, and Rethink Robotics are redefining the business of manufacturing. The 5 companies named as a CNBC Disruptor: 3D Robotics, Makerbot, Quirky, Shapeways, Rethink Robotics are redefining the business of manufacturing.
BluetoothSerial
github.com
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
This plugin enables serial communication over Bluetooth. It was written for communicating between Android or iOS and an Arduino.Use plugman to add BluetoothSerial to your Android project. Plugman requires node.js and is installed through npm.Function connect connects to a Bluetooth device. The callback is long running. Success will ...
App turns smartphone sensors into weather stations
New Scientist
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Weather reports typically only tell you what the weather should be doing in given places – not what it is doing. But that could soon change if an online service that uses people's phones as tiny weather stations works out. Launched today, WeatherSignal will crowdsource meteorological data from ...
'Wired' Completely Overhauls Print Magazine
mashable.com
2 mentions — 4 days ago
Wired is debuting a new look for its June issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The magazine has been completely made over by Scott Dadich, who before being named editor-in-chief last November worked as creative director of Wired from 2006 to 2010.There was something about the previous version of ...
App note: picoPower Basics
Dangerous Prototypes
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
Here’s an application note from Atmel on power saving techniques to reduce energy consumption (PDF!):In this demonstration we will show you how to extend the battery life of our application by multiple factors by modifying only the firmware. You will see that while some of the modifications are ...
Joshua Kiepert and Raspberry Pi Cluster Computing #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
adafruit industries blog
2 mentions — 2 days ago
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait for next year's model"
How to Create a Delta Robot Project #3dthursday
adafruit industries blog
2 mentions — 2 days ago
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Emerging Objects: Design / Program / Prototype
Skillshare
4 mentions — 2 weeks ago
The ability to design and create your own working, electronic gadgets is now within reach. Creating a hardware device or interactive sculpture involves many skills. Programming, electronic circuit design, interface design, and fabrication, to name a few.In this class we will learn the basics you need to create ...
Maker Pro Newsletter
newsletter.makezine.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
From the editors of MAKE magazine, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, innovators, along with technology and market trends. Please send items to us at makerpro@makermedia.com. Click here to subscribe to this ...
The Maker kids are alright
salon.com
6 mentions — 3 days ago
Topics:Maker Faire,makers,maker movement,robots,Make magazine,d.i.y. DIY,Editor's Picks, Technology News, Business News You don’t see bicycle-powered cardboard rhinos every day. But when you nearly stumble into one at a Maker Faire, you don’t even blink. After just a few hours
Supporting American Choices on Measurement
We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
Official National Institute of Standards and Technology Response toMake the Metric system the standard in the United States, instead of the Imperial system.There’s a lot of history here. Right after the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson signed legislation that made it "lawful throughout the United States of America ...
EFF Seeks Creative Human Resources Coordinator
Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 mentions — 2 days ago
HTTPS Everywhere encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure. More info.We're hiring a creative human resources coordinator. Love hackers, geeks, and digital rights? Apply today! https://eff.org/r.4bSnGoogle's new instant messaging platform abandons open standards and hurts user privacy: https://eff.org/r.b9SmThe law must stop patent trolls ...
Skill Builder — Understanding Basic Woodworking Tools
Skill Builder — Understanding Basic Woodworking...
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
For our Woodworking Skill Set theme, we asked MAKE contributor Len Cullum to contribute some pieces on understanding basic tools and techniques. His first piece looks at five must-have beginner woodworking tools. As Len says below, your choice in tools may vary. Tells us about your beloved woodworking ...
A Web Series For Kids Aims To Be The “Elmo for Engineering”
Co.Design: business + innovation + design
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Limor Fried created "Circuit Playground" in order to get young kids interested in hacking and making--REALLY young.It’s hard to beat classic episodes of "Sesame Street" for timeless, near-universal educational appeal, but engineer and Adafruit Industries founder Limor Fried still saw an unmet need in the educational-video space. "We ...
Steampunk Stahp! Or the Appropriation of Prada
The Steampunk Workshop
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Numi Prasarn is an artist, producer, and maker who has cut her teeth on a multitude of mediums and roles in the fashion and photography industries. Obsessed with fashion theory and with creating avenues for people to gain aesthetic control of their lives, Numi has turned to writing ...
Parts & Kits for Arduino Online, Buy Microcontroller Boards, Electronic Components for Arduino
Freetronics
3 mentions — 1 day ago
As the Arduino platform can be a good base for data input and output in various forms, it lends itself to many applications. One of these is the "brains" of a 2.4 GHz radio remote control for model aircraft. An example of this has been documented by ...
NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it'll start with pizza
The Verge
3 mentions — 4 days ago
NASA is funding research into 3D-printed food. Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor received a $125,000 grant from the agency to build a prototype 3D printer with the aim of automating food creation. It's hoped the system could provide astronauts food during long-distance space travel, but its creator has the ...
Standard Antennas Enable Rapid NFC Development
Avnet OnDemand
2 mentions — 1 day ago
One major challenge of integrating NFC into end products is having the antenna meet the requirements of the NFC standard. Pulse offers a suite of antennas that help meet the NFC standard. Additionally, Avnet offers NFC development kits to enable designers to meet all of their NFC needs.How can businesses drive greater ROI and more successful implementations for their IT projects? The answer may be throu...Avnet CIO Steve Phillips shares the top enterprise technology trends Avnet will be focused on in 2013, including IT secu...Watch this video to learn more ...
Vine app hack on iPhone makes time-lapse movies
hackaday.com
2 mentions — 3 days ago
The Vine app is all the rage these days. It lets you shoot six-second videos on your iPhone and easily post them on the Internet. The problem is that [Sean Hodgins] doesn’t find the time limit to be useful for traditional video. But you can cram a lot ...
FAQ
Bitmessage Wiki
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
Bitmessage should run on any OS though it is only lightly tested on OSX. The start-on-boot and minimize-to-tray features are only implemented for Windows thus far. Several examples of how to install Bitmessage on *nix and OSX platforms can be found in the forums. If your connection indicator is green then you are already accepting incoming connections and helping the Bitmessage network. If your connection indicator is yellow, check your firewall settings and port forwarding to make sure incoming connections are allowed to your machine on the correct port (Default ...
EDN - Digital isolators helping to relieve the transformer blues | EDN
EDN
4 mentions — 1 week ago
Every time a communications bus or control lines need to be isolated, the power line gets cut at the isolation barrier.So inevitably a designer winds up dealing with isolated power supplies.Fortunately there are a lot of options to get power across an isolation barrier.If you are lucky you ...
The Government Wants A Backdoor Into Your Online Communications
Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 mentions — 3 days ago
According to the New York Times, President Obama is "on the verge of backing" a proposal by the FBI to introduce legislation dramatically expanding the reach of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. CALEA forces telephone companies to provide backdoors to the government so that ...
What is the most complex Chinese character?
The Week
2 mentions — 5 days ago
hinese characters are made up of strokes. Learning to write them involves not only learning where all the strokes go, but also the order in which they are supposed to be written and the direction of each individual stroke (left to right, up to down, etc.) The simplest ...
Using wireless networks to solve water problems | The Alternative
The Alternative
2 mentions — 6 days ago
Himachal Pradesh is one of the most beautiful states in India, filled with mountains and streams and all the greenery in the world. So logically since there should be no problem with water. Well that’s almost true. Yet, even though the sources of water are abundant, the utilization ...
Nerdy Cafe Latte Art Is More Amazing in Color
kotaku.com
2 mentions — 1 week ago
You know what's more mind-blowing that latte art? Latte art drawn in vibrant color. And this Japanese coffee craftsman has mastered it. You are looking at the work of "Nowtoo Sugi". Starting this past February, Sugi began using colored bartender syrups to, as the hobby artist says, "paint" ...
Drone Light Painting at Märchenbrunnen
adafruit industries blog
2 mentions — 3 days ago
"Collaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many"
Getting started with login verification | Twitter Blog
Twitter Blog
5 mentions — 3 days ago
Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.Today we’re introducing ...
Computer Guts Become Eerie Landscapes in Ghosts in the Machine | Raw File | Wired.com
wired.com
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Mark Crummett thinks modern technology is beautiful. To him the devices we’ve built, such as computers, are not only functional, they’re aesthetically appealing. Especially on the inside. “I like the idea that [technology] looks the way it does because it has to look that way,” he says. “A ...
AGENT: The World's Smartest Watch
kickstarter.com
5 mentions — 4 days ago
Smartwatch batteries are less than 10% the size of smartphone batteries.Yet while we're thrilled when a smartphone lasts the entire day on a charge, we're frustrated when a tiny smartwatch battery doesn't last the week.So smartwatch designers have compromised to conserve battery power—limiting us to simple apps, minimal ...
Mataerial
mataerial.com
2 mentions — 1 week ago
MATAERIAL – a brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures. Conventional methods of additive manufacturing have been affected both by gravity and ...
How the U.S. Government Hacks the World
Businessweek
2 mentions — 18 hours ago
Obscured by trees and grassy berms, the campus of the National Security Agency sits 15 miles north of Washington’s traffic-clogged Beltway, its 6 million square feet of blast-resistant buildings punctuated by clusters of satellite dishes. Created in 1952 to intercept radio and other electronic transmissions—known as signals intelligence—the ...
SiSSYFiGHT 2000 returns!
kickstarter.com
5 mentions — 3 days ago
In the mystical years of the late 90s, a little game called SiSSYFiGHT 2000 was born on the web. Hundreds of thousands of players fought as bratty little girls, teasing and tattling and licking their lollipops on the playground. An amazing community sprang up around the game, in ...
An Unexpected Reaction: Why a Science Experiment Gone Bad Doesn't Make Me a Criminal
American Civil Liberties Union
2 mentions — 2 days ago
After model student Kiera Wilmot was arrested and removed from her high school for doing a science experiment on school property, hundreds of thousands of people across the country signed petitions asking for charges to be dropped and for her to be reinstated in school. Kiera's school's zero-tolerance ...
B.C. in 3-D: Rise of the MakerBot Printer
ARTnews
2 mentions — 4 days ago
Micah Ganske was transfixed the moment he first saw one of his objects printed in three dimensions and claims it’s now just as important to his practice as painting. “Each sculpture gets progressively larger and more complex,” says the New York–based artist and self-described “futurist.” Mining Habitat, for ...
We Need Art to Traverse the Jagged Paths of Our Times | 60 Second Reads | Big Think
Big Think
2 mentions — 2 days ago
We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why? Big Think ...