The first day of Maker Faire was teeming with all kinds of robotic creatures and amazing interactive art installations. Here are some of our favorites, including the famous Cupcake Cars, the Electric Giraffe, a giant TapLight message board, and a head in a jar (a la Futurama) More photos below the fold.
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Maker Faire Day 1: The Seeed Booth
We had a great first day at the Maker Faire! Thanks again to Seeed for inviting us to join their expo booth. More photos below the fold.
Maker Faire 2011: USB Infrared Toy v2
This is an easy one. One click start’s Jawi’s impressive OLS client and anyone can point, shoot, and visualize a remote control signal. A more indepth demo could clone a signal and play it back to a second IR Toy.
Maker Faire 2011: Bus Pirate demo board
We have a demo board for the Bus Pirate, a bunch of different parts that are easy to explore. It’s simple to demo an EEPROM write/read, etc, but it might be too involved for a hands-on display. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
NYC Hackathon now streaming live
The NYC Hackathon video is now streaming! Around 500 hackers participated from late last night to early today morning at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York, building in teams and waking up or popping enough Redbull this am in order to show off their hacks to notables including VC Jeff Clavier and Canv.as founder […]
Maker Faire 2011: Logic Sniffer
Connect an OLS to a device and record the output. Jawi’s OLS client is intuitive and easy to use.
Maker Faire on Ustream
If you didn’t make it to Maker Faire, you can check out today’s activities presented on the Maker Faire Ustream channel. You can view the schedule of today’s activities here.
Maker Faire Setup
San Mateo Fairgrounds are buzzing tonight with the preparations for the Bay Area Maker Faire. Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at the setup and festivities, including booths from some of our favorite sites, interesting vehicles and creatures on display, and one exceptionally large batch of paella. More photos below the fold.
Pre-Faire SanFran Taco Crawl
We have a real passion for good Mexican food. Before the beginning of Maker Faire we took it upon ourselves to sample as many different tacos as possible from SF’s famous Mission District taquerias. We started at 16th and Mission, walked to 24th and all the way down. We also had our first celebrity citing […]
Maker Faire 2011: Hands-on DIY festival
The internet situation pre-Maker Faire Bay Area has been pretty bad. Worse than bad. Today we’re in the conference hotel though, and there’s wired and wireless internet aplenty. If you’re going to Maker Faire please stop by the Seeed Studio booth and say hi, we’re right next to the central Maker stage in the main […]
Maker Faire travel and reduced support
We’ll be at the Seeed Studio booth at Bay Area Maker Faire on May 21st and 22nd. If you’re at Maker Faire please stop by and see us in the main hall, along with the Gadget Factory, and other awesome makers. All weekend we’ll have on-the-scene coverage of the Faire. If you’d like us to […]
Free embedded systems virtual conference
The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley just concluded. Didn’t get to attend? Now ESC has decided to open their doors to engineers worldwide, for an immersive ESC experience online. ESC has announced a free virtual embedded systems conference to beheld on June 16, 2011, from 8 AM to 3 PM PT. The ESC Silicon […]
OpenHack Europe: Node.js and practical hacking with Javascript
The Yahoo-sponsored OpenHack Europe 2011 is in progress in Bucharest, Romania. One of the latest presentations was Reid Burke’s Achieving Greatness with Node.js. While only the slides are available at this time, they are quite informative and include links to additional content. If you’re wondering how this relates to open source hardware, see slides 24-25. […]
Maker Faire 2011: Your help needed
Maker Faire is the World’s largest hands-on DIY festival. We’ll be at the Bay Area fair later this month, along with the Gadget Factory and other makers, in the Seeed Studio booth. Flights are booked, hotels reserved, and new business cards just arrived. Stop by to mess with a Bus Pirate, IR Toy, or Logic […]
Electric vehicle GrandPrix races
NBitWonder writes: The NBitWonder staff are Purdue-based, and wanted to get the word out about 2 cool events that are happening the next 2 days in the West Lafayette, IN area. Purdue and other local-area universities are sponsoring an all electric vehicle grand prix. We didn’t get this up in time for the April 30th […]
Dayton Hamvention May 20-22, 2011
The 60th annual Dayton Hamvention, a three-day amateur radio, computer and technology gathering is set this year for May 20-22, 2011, at the Dayton Hara Arena, 1001 Shiloh Springs Road, Dayton, OH 45415. Dozens of commercial radio and electronics vendors as well as numerous individual flea market vendors will be in attendance. While this is […]
Shmoocon 2011: intercepting FHSS radio signals
Q, Atlas and Cutaway gave a presentation at the Shmoocon 2011 conference held recently in Washington, DC, concerning interception techniques for Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) radio signals. They demonstrate the use of low-cost, easily obtained hardware/software to conduct predictive channel hopping analysis coupled with crude spectrum analysis and ultimately identify any given hopping pattern […]
Shmoocon 2011: Linux autorun USB attacks
Many of us use Linux on a regular basis, and some users mistakenly believe that it’s immune to many of the hack attacks commonly used against Windows machines. In this talk presented at the Shmoocon 2011 conference which recently concluded in Washington, DC, Jon Larimer demonstrates how the development of common windows features in Linux, […]
Shmoocon 2011: Exploring ZigBee Security
At the Shmoocon 2011 conference which recently concluded in Washington, DC, Ryan Speers and Ricky Melgares presented ZigBee Security: Find, Fix, Finish. ZigBee is a low-power, low-data rate wireless protocol based on IEEE 802.15.4. It connects lightweight embedded technology like HVAC, smart energy, security, and process automation systems, and is an attractive target as it […]
Make: Tokyo Meeting 06 tour and wrap up
Tayken attended the Make: Tokyo Meeting over the weekend. Make: Tokyo Meeting 06 was an eye opening experience. Lots of cool stuff to look at & play with, speaking with fellow geeks about their projects and taking lots of pictures and a couple of videos. Thanks for the followup! Video tour after the break. Via […]