Monthly Archives: December 2013

Ive looked around for a good in depth instructable on how to make a muti-touch table and I didnt find any I liked. I hope you enjoy making your very own multi-touch table and that my instructions are clear to … Continue reading →

Organovo, a bio-printing company based in San Diego, has claimed that it has overcome the vascular issue to a degree and now expects to unveil the world’s first printed organ – a human liver – by the end of 2014. … Continue reading →

3D printer with a rotating platform gives you much bigger build area than Cartesian (xyz) printers. PiMaker was one of the earliest rotary 3d printers available on the market. It has the same size as the Makerbot Cupcake, but features … Continue reading →

Utility companies across America are fighting solar, imposing high fees on homeowners who install their own solar panels to feed back into the grid.      from Boing Boing http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/35208/f/653965/s/3542a5dd/sc/29/l/0Lboingboing0Bnet0C20A130C120C270Cutility0Ecompanies0Ego0Eto0Ewar0Eag0Bhtml/story01.htm via IFTTT

Today, Ars Technica reports on RSA’s statement issued Sunday, denying-but-not-actually-denying Friday’s Reuters exclusive that the security software firm received $10 million from the NSA "in exchange for making a weak algorithm the preferred one in its BSAFE toolkit." [Ars Technica] … Continue reading →

These whale-shaped Kujira knives were created by Japanese blacksmith Toru Yamashita, who was asked to make a knife for children to sharpen pencils with.      from Boing Boing http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/35208/f/653965/s/3511a397/sc/14/l/0Lboingboing0Bnet0C20A130C120C20A0Cwhale0Eshaped0Ehand0Eforged0Ekid0Bhtml/story01.htm via IFTTT

When [Robert] realized Adafruit is now selling analog feedback servos, he decided he just had to make a programmable robot arm that could be trained like the commercially available Baxter robot. The neat thing with the analog feedback servos is … Continue reading →

The DARPA robotics challenge trials 2013 are have finished up. The big winner is Team Schaft, seen above preparing to drive in the vehicle trial. This isn’t the end of the line for DARPA’s robotics challenge – there is still one … Continue reading →

Jason Kridner, a software architecture manager at TI and co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, shows how to program a BeagleBone to run Open-CV and face-detection algorithms. from MAKE http://makezine.com/video/face-detection-in-10-minutes/ via IFTTT