No, that isn’t Master Chief’s signature ride, that is Maker Nathan Gray’s Halo-inspired paintball buggy — though mounting a paintball gun to a moving vehicle may not be as easy as it seems. Gray had some simple goals in mind when embarking on this project. the Maker simply wanted an electronically firing, easily accessible, and reliable paintball […]
No matter what club you support, you will undoubtedly find this application of 3D technology pretty clever. While it’s not out of the ordinary for the video gaming giant Electronic Arts to be at the forefront of technological advances, this project is a surprising partnership. For their upcoming title FIFA 15, EA scanned over 200 English […]
For many, the term “drone” seems to conjure images of military use and war weaponry. As a result, the mere thought of these futuristic flying devices tend to pose security and privacy concerns to several people. When, however, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used for defense purposes and those that may one day may buzz around the skies are quite different, and […]
It’s time to break with conventional thinking. For decades, the measure of success for semiconductors has been OEM design wins. Most consumers haven’t known, or cared, about what is inside their electronic gadgets, as long as they work. That may be about to change, because a new intermediary is finding its voice – and being […]
A Maker by the name of Famous Mods was growing tired of the ceiling in his living room undergoing constant water damage. So what did he do? In true DIY fashion, he built an Arduino-powered LED Drop Ceiling to cover up the problem all while making his living room dance party ready at the press of […]
In 2013 there were 100 Maker Faires held around the world with nearly 530,000 people in attendance. Among the events, there are players and exhibitors who showcase their creation to the spectators. Many young techies, savvy tinkers, and even academic researchers are turning to tinkering. According to Makezine, there are over 40 million people who […]
Writing for The Journal, Greg Thompson notes that many educators are channeling a natural urge to build with help from Makers – a burgeoning movement that has prompted the establishment of annual Maker Faires and the creation of Maker spaces in classrooms across the country. According to Pam Moran, superintendent of the Albemarle County Public […]
Powered by Atmel’s ATxmega128A3U microcontroller (MCU), the Wolverine is a programmable light, sound and motion controller board. “[Simply] plug it into your computer (via the micro USB port), write some code (in C/C++) using the Arduino IDE and upload it,” Wolverine creator Shawn Swift wrote in a recent Indiegogo post. “Then you can attach a […]
A Stargate is a portal device within the fictional SG universe that facilitates practical, rapid travel between two distant locations. According to Wikipedia, the devices first appear in the 1994 Roland Emmerich film Stargate – and subsequently in the television series Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe. The stargates – created millions of years […]
A holocron, short for holographic chronicle, is defined by Wookiepedia as an organic crystal-lattice device used to store large quantities of data guarded by the device’s gatekeeper. In the Star Wars Universe, holocrons typically stored information on Force techniques, beginning with the Sith and the Jedi approximately three thousand years later. Up until now, most of […]
