Posts tagged ‘hardware hacking’

Sean Bonner has realised a very important dream: (via Leigh via Adafruit via BoingBoing) What else have unicorns been up to? Where else have unicorns been a critical technological tool? This is an open thread, ...

I’ve been working on a rather silly but entertaining project for the past few weeks: It’s a hat, that’s also a compass.  There are LEDs in the brim – whichever is pointed North is the ...

Jie Qi is majoring in mechanical engineering at Columbia University, and as her website says, she loves to make things. Now, sometimes adding electronics to classic kids toys just makes them obnoxious, but this popup ...

These are the voyages of the starship Adorable, presented as a unicorn chaser to yesterday’s awfulness.  Last weekend at miniSoOnCon, the Southern Ontario hackerspace festival, I got to meet and work with with a couple ...

The do’s and don’ts of being a good ally Ring around Saturn: Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics profiles astrophysicist Carolyn Porco and her work on the Cassini probe Liana Leahy asks SRSLY? at claims of ...