Make: Daily In This Issue... Heron of Alexandria and the Gin Pole DIY Hacks & How To's: Remote Tripwire Alarm Videos of Boing Boing's First Hack Day Autodesk Partners with Circuits.io to Create Free Electronics Design Tool Enter the (Paper) Matrix Privacy No More? A Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things Believing in Learning Through Making and Doing More Recent Articles Heron of Alexandria and the Gin Pole Remake history by building the world's first construction crane, still in use today — the gin pole. In antiquity, the only way to raise a heavy object was to put a rope on it, climb a ladder, and pull — or if you had enough time, build a ramp. Then the Greeks put a pulley on a pole, and the sky was the limit. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • DIY Hacks & How To's: Remote Tripwire Alarm A tripwire is one of the most basic ways to set up a simple security system. You run a line across a pathway. Then when someone walks through the line, it activates an alarm. This kind of system is easy to set up and is fairly effective. But there is always room for improvement. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Videos of Boing Boing's First Hack Day Here are working prototypes of devices that use data generated by OpenXC, an open source platform developed by Ford that allows people to connect Arduinos, tablets, and smartphones to streams of data being generated by a vehicles. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Autodesk Partners with Circuits.io to Create Free Electronics Design Tool Autodesk today expanded its suite of free 3D tools by partnering with Circuits.io to launch an electronics design tool: 123D Circuits. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Enter the (Paper) Matrix Math Mondays is back from summer vacation with a brief break from all of the goodies discovered at the Bridges conference (more later) to highlight another must-visit site in the world of making with a mathematical bent. Today's shout-out goes to PaperMatrix, an incredible compendium of all things made by weaving paper. In the mix are spheres and ellipsoids and polyhedra galore Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Privacy No More? A Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things When your shoes can tell the Internet where they are and what they're doing, personal privacy is on strange new ground. Keeping your personal data out of the wrong hands is shaping up to be an epic struggle. Limor Fried and Phil Torrone at Adafruit Industries say the answer is easy: we need a Bill of Rights for the Internet of Things. And you can help write it. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Believing in Learning Through Making and Doing Five years ago, I was sitting in a classroom with six eighth grade boys who all read at a third grade level or below. This was my first day as a teacher, six weeks after completing my last education class and receiving a provisional teaching certificate. I was a mid-year hire: these students needed more help than they could receive with existing staff. And what they had was me. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles A 3D Printed Large Format Camera Cross it off the list: This Robot will beat you at Air Hockey Laser-Cut a Drag Chain

 

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