Make: Daily In This Issue... Inside 3D Printing Conference Comes to San Jose Sept. 17-18 Pixy — teaching micro-controller boards to see First Look: Javascript Microcontrollers for web Developers Testing Your Big Ideas in Space Sweet! 3D Systems Buys The Sugar Lab Turn Drawings Into Sound With the Drawdio Musical Pencil Robots Past and Present The Arduino Yún 云 is Now Available Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material New York's Next Top Makers: The Finalists Inside 3D Printing Conference Comes to San Jose Sept. 17-18 A who's who of the 3D printing industry will gather in Silicon Valley for the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo next week. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Pixy — teaching micro-controller boards to see Now in the closing few days of its Kickstarter campaign the Pixy camera board isn't just another camera, it's a "smart" vision sensor. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • First Look: Javascript Microcontrollers for web Developers Right now there are two new micro-controller boards seeking funding—one on Kickstarter, and the other on Dragon Innovation's new crowdfunding platform—that are slightly different. These boards aren't just yet another Arduino clone, or yet another possible "Raspberry Pi killer." These two boards, the Tessel from technical.io and the Espruino from Pur3, intend to take the path least travelled and co-op an existing community not traditionally associated with the maker community. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Testing Your Big Ideas in Space How'd you like to get your big idea to make the world a better place studied on the International Space Station? Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Sweet! 3D Systems Buys The Sugar Lab 3D printing giant 3D Systems announced today that it has acquired The Sugar Lab, a startup "micro-design firm" based in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to 3D printing customized, multi-dimensional, edible confections in real sugar. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Turn Drawings Into Sound With the Drawdio Musical Pencil Drawdio is a simple electronic sound synthesizer build onto a pencil! The Drawdio circuit plays a musical tone with a frequency that varies based on the resistance between two points. When you hold the Drawdio in your hand, your body becomes part of the resistive loop, and you can do all kinds of fun tricks, like draw yourself a piano and play a little tune. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Robots Past and Present Robots have been a big part of Maker Faire from the beginning. Check out Maker Faire robots from 2008 to today. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • The Arduino Yún 云 is Now Available Announced earlier in the year at Maker Faire Bay Area the Arduino Yún, the first Linux-based Arduino board, is now available for purchase at a cost of €52 (approximately $69) from the Arduino store. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Cardboard: In Praise of an Underappreciated Material You might not be aware of it but your home has an infestation of the most abundant, versatile, free and under-utilized crafting and prototyping material ever made. A gift from the consumer driven economy we overlook everyday. This material is sitting cluttered in scattered piles in the basement and in crawl spaces, is buried within dusty mounds in the garage and is waiting to be discarded while overflowing in the recycling bin. The material I am referring to is good old grade-A cardboard! Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • New York's Next Top Makers: The Finalists New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) challenged the city's makers to compete in a year-long New York's Next Top Makers Challenge. The winner will be announced at MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at a special evening reception at the New York Hall of Science. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •

 

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