By Tara Stratton Whats your perfect vacation? Mine involves sitting out by the pool under the sun as people deliver me ice-cold drinks. Andy Gikling seems to have a similar dream, and he figured out a way to live the good life every weekendby developing the BBot robot! The BBot is an open source, remote-controlled […]
By Tara Stratton New York is one of the brightest places on Earth. Times Square is definitely a large factor, but now a new BeagleBone Black-based project, the Octoscroller, is adding to the glow. The Octoscroller, which you may have seen at Maker Faire New York a few weeks ago, is a project created by […]
By Tara Stratton When you think of Pyramids in the middle of the desert, you think of Egypt, not Nevada. The Disorient Pyramid, which was on display at Burning Man 2013 this year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, is changing all that. This year at Burning Man, the Disorient Camp hosted a 23-foot […]
By Tara Stratton Phil Polstra had a problem. He had a vision for a portable penetration testing (pentesting) and forensics device, but he didnt have the technology he would need to do it. One fateful day at Maker Faire Detroit, Polstra found himself right next to Jason Kridner, who was showing off the (then) new […]
By Tara Stratton Heres something we are sure you will Like. While at Maker Faire Bay Area this year, we gave away a few BeagleBone Black open-source computers to some lucky faire attendees. We heard back from one of the winners, Christopher Berg, about a creative but functional project hes created on the board over […]