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MAKE In This Issue... 3D Robotics Raises $5 Million in Funding Make: Talk 016 – Joel Murphy, Co-Creator of the Pulse Sensor Jeri's Short Circuit: A One-Bit ADC Working Paper M1911 .45 Pistol 3D Printing Dilbert-Style How to Hack an Election: A Cautionary Tale Images from Maker Faire Africa 2012 Math Monday: Even Greater Circle Pi-Powered Video Viewer Getting Started With .NET Gadgeteer Webcast From Author Simon Monk 3D Robotics Raises $5 Million in Funding Last week Wired's Chris Anderson announced he's leaving the editor-in-chief post to become 3D Robotics' full-time CEO. Today, Chris announced that his company secured $5 million in VC funding. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Make: Talk 016 – Joel Murphy, Co-Creator of the Pulse Sensor In this episode of the Make: Talk podcast I interviewed Joel Murphy. He's an artist living in Brooklyn and owns a business designing and fabricating electro-mechanical projects for artists and designers. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Jeri's Short Circuit: A One-Bit ADC We love Jeri Ellsworth’s electronics videos and have missed them of late (as she’s made the move from Oregon to Washington to work at Valve Software). She’s baaaaack! And with a cool, simple circuit for building a 1-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using a single flipflop IC (such as a 74LS*) [...] Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Working Paper M1911 .45 Pistol It can be cocked, rendered safe, loaded, cycled, field-stripped, and even fired, so long as the load is no stronger than a bit of homemade primer. And though it's clear that the coil springs, at least, are actually metal parts, the rest of it is nothing more than carefully cut, laminated, glued, shaped, and painted paper. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • 3D Printing Dilbert-Style Apparently even Dilbert's office just got a new 3D printer. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • How to Hack an Election: A Cautionary Tale Roger Johnston is head the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory. He and his colleagues recently launched security attacks on electronic voting machines to demonstrate how easy it is to steal votes. Conclusion: It's really easy. And cheap. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Images from Maker Faire Africa 2012 A slideshow of images from the two-day Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Math Monday: Even Greater Circle For the Museum of Mathematics I have been remiss. I wrote an entire column on arrangements of great circles without once mentioning Buckminster Fuller. His original designs for domes involved bracing them solely with arcs of great circles. Since, on the surface of a sphere a great circle is the [...] Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Pi-Powered Video Viewer Simon de Bakker and Jon Stam built this video viewer which allows you to view movies off of a flash card, one frame at a time. The Bioscope uses a Raspberry Pi with a custom shield, and the case was 3D printed. Inspired by an early movie projector of the [...] Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Getting Started With .NET Gadgeteer Webcast From Author Simon Monk If you like making things, then you will love .NET Gadgeteer. You can create many interesting projects by just plugging together components and writing a few lines of programming code. Check out this upcoming hands-on webcast presented by Simon Monk, author of Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer: Thursday, November 8, 2012 (free registration). Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •

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