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Arduino Uno

All / Gadgets / gadgets / hacking / innovation

Arduino Uno | Best Holiday Gifts of 2014

Here’s a holiday review of the Arduino Uno, and a basic guide to buying and using one. Building things is satisfying. It just feels great to turn on a device you’ve designed and assembled yourself, and watch it work. If you’re looking to give someone that type of satisfaction as a holiday gift this year, you might want to consider getting your special someone an Arduino...

snapchat payments pay with snapchat

social / Social Media / social network

Snapchat Releases Snapcash, A Payment Solution

[Breaking] Have you ever needed to pay someone, and thought “I should be able to pay with Snapchat”. Neither have I. Even so, Snapchat’s bizarre founders unveiled Snapcash today, using a hilarious introductory video. Snapcash uses tech from Jack Dorsey’s square to allow instant person-to-person payments via Snapchat. If the feature is as well thought out as the video, this might just work. You...

Rachel Pi in Uganda

All / hacking / innovation

Saving Lives and Spreading Knowledge with Pi

It’s $30, the size of a credit card, and it’s bringing educational resources to remote villages around the world. Today I’d like to tell you the story of the Rachel-Pi. The Rachel Pi is an educational server based off of the $30 Raspberry Pi computer. It runs on an SD card, and carries an open-source collection of more than 3,000 books, 6,000 wikipedia articles,...

Nick Offerman Wooden Emojis video conan

All / humor / Video

Nick Offerman’s Hand-crafted Emojis Will Make Your Day

Nick Offerman is famous for his portrayal of the manly Ron Swanson on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”, but he’s also an incredible wood-worker. He used his wood-working skills to produce this ridiculous infomercial for Conan O’Brien, featuring real, hand-crafted emojis. The emojis are made of solid wood, weigh several pounds each, and cost $30 a piece. It is a great reminder of how little...

useless machines ted talk

innovation / Video

Some Call It Pointless. He Calls It Art.

Bryan Cera’s is proud to build useless machines. Cera is the man behind ARAI the procrastinating robot, a scream-controlled game of pong, and a cell-phone that requires the sacrifice of your hand. Cera gave this inspiring TEDx talk on his work at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee earlier this month. Share Brian’s Story: “I found it interesting that by making this robot more like a human...