‘Pepper&Carrot’: An Open-Source Web Comic
An increasingly popular web comic about a young witch called Pepper and her tomcat Carrot is developed as “open-source comic.” Open source in the arts?!?
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Gift Guide: Ideas For Makers and Hackers
Still looking for the perfect gifts for the makers and hackers on your list? It’s not too late! We’ve got suggestions.
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The Mothership: A Visit to the New SparkFun Building
The shipping department was full of dudes with asymmetric facial hair on skateboards. An engineer had picked up about a thousand Keva planks and on an upstairs wrap-around counter space, there was a crowdsourced build going on — in which you could tell the crowd had higher than the average bear’s level of design thinking skills. Strung on a wall was a DIY art piece made of light bulbs and wire that was set to ripple in response to sounds. A trigger-operated race car track wound underneath a 7-foot tall version of one of those wooden dinosaur skeleton kits.
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How a Hacker Slumber Party Gets Girls Into Code
When Gina Likins walked into Carroll Hall at the University of North Carolina, she was reminded of the sleepovers of her youth. But this was no ordinary slumber party.
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Entertainment Hack: Air Hockey Robot Made From Printer
Life-hacking is brought to a whole new entertainment level with this interactive air-hockey robot you can make at home.
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Vintage Tomorrows Connects Steampunk, Makers, and the Future of Technology
Vintage Tomorrows reaches into subcultures of the past, then gathers the steampunk subculture of today to talk about what steampunk is, why it’s important at this point in time, and what it can teach us about the technology of the future.
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Give Kids Arduino Adventures
Arduino Adventures: Escape from Gemini Station is a great introduction to Arduino robotics projects for kids (and adults who want an easy starting point.) The book was written by James Floyd Kelly and Harold Timmis and published by Apress.
Continue ReadingOpenBeam — It’s Like Lego Parts and Pieces for Makers!
OpenBeam is for tinkerers, makers, fast prototypers, and anyone looking for a method to quickly and easily assemble structures. OpenBeam is a collection of parts — beams, joining plates, fasteners, and more — that allow you to assemble structures using …
Continue ReadingThe Open Hardware Summit: The Future of Manufacturing is Sharing
The Open Hardware Summit was held for the third time on Thursday in New York in advance of this weekend’s World Maker Faire in nearby Queens. Here are a few of the highlights from the event.
Continue ReadingTurn Your Kids Into Linux Hackers At SCALE: The Next Generation
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) celebrates its tenth year with a new feature, called SCALE: The Next Generation. The free and open source community of today is reaching out to their future leaders by hosting this mini-event for kids within the larger Linux conference. Mimi Cafiero and Malakai Wade, eighth graders already with backgrounds […]
Continue ReadingApril Events Calendar–Where Will You Be?
Here’s what’s happening in the geek world this month. Got something to add? Let us know. WonderCon, San Francisco, CA April 1-3 It’s the 25th anniversary of this comics convention. Special guests include Sergio Aragonés, one of MAD magazine’s longest-running cartoonists; Berkeley Breathed of Bloom County; Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel; and NYT bestseller Robert […]
Continue ReadingFUDCon Recap and How You Can Get Involved In Open Source
I spent last weekend in Tempe, Arizona, at FUDCon, the Fedora Users and Developers Conference. For the less technically adventurous among our GeekMom friends, Fedora is a distribution of Linux, the open source operating system. If you’re not familiar, you can learn more at fedoraproject.org. A BarCamp-style unconference FUDCon is an unconference, BarCamp-style. In this […]
Continue ReadingOpen Hardware Summit
The concept of open source hardware has interested me for some time. There are a number of wildly popular (at least with the geeks) products available for “free”. This particular type of free is akin to freedom and not cost. …
Continue ReadingOpen Source DIY Retro Gaming Clock
MONOCHRON – open source retro clock from adafruit industries on Vimeo. They call it something else (for understandable reasons), but it still satisfies our grumpy old geek rant: “When we were kids, video games had two lines and a dot, …
Continue ReadingLess Than 24 Hours Left to Help Fund MakerBeam
MakerBeam is a completely open source, electronics-compatible building set created out of extruded aluminum. With projects ranging from arduino enclosures to robotics to a kid’s models, this awesome project aims to do it all… but they need your help. The …
Continue ReadingHappy Tux Paint Day!
June 16th, 2009 is the 7th anniversary of the very first release of Tux Paint, and thusly has been declared Tux Paint Day! What is Tux Paint, you ask? It’s a very fun open source drawing program for kids. Some …
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