Today's been a hectic day, so I'm behind in getting up this Maker Birthday tribute to probably the maker of all makers. To me, Leonardo is the ultimate example of what you might call the Bucky Fuller Challenge. In 1927, Buckminster Fuller at 32, was suicidal. Instead of leaping from the Chicago bridge on which he stood, ready to take his life, he...
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IBM PowerPC 405 Embedded Core from GDA Technologies[...]
As a Cavium PACE (Partnership to Accelerate Customer End-solutions) member, GDA helps reduce time to market for networking OEMs by providing ready-to-use OCTEON based systems and sub-systems. GDAs u[...]
Satin IP Technologies has been working with the Quality of Electronic and Software Intellectual Property (QIP) Metric standard working group of the IEEE Design Automation Standards Committee (DASC) si[...]
PLDA today announced that it has begun shipping the first SuperSpeed USB Host Bus Adapter (HBA) development platform. This HBA platform will enable leading-edge companies to develop and test USB 3.0 s[...]
Noah Zerkin sent us a vid to his current project. It's a wireless inertial data glove rig, built with an Arduino- and Processing-based motion capture system for use in creative interaction, augmente[...]
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Instructables user Bctcteacher writes: My students love to build things and throw stuff so let's put both together! Now, for the green part. Let's see if we can make something that is recyclable a[...]
Photograph by Pat Molner Surface Mount Soldering Techniques for making modern circuits. By Scott Driscoll Read more | Permalink | Comments | [...]
There's still time to start making or just watch this week's Weekend Project: The Truth Wristband . Subscribe in iTunes to get all our Weekend Projects and PDFs delivered each week. Read mor[...]