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Thursday, 29 January 2015

DiResta: Sawhorses

I needed new shop horses to manage different projects and locations in my shop. I went to buy them, but realized they were too big.

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FIRST Robotics Season: Part 4 Breakdown Of The Game

In this game, an ideal alliance would consist of robots that each specialize in different tasks working together

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Made at shackspace: Software-based KVM Switch

shackspace hacker makefu is at it again. This time he’s hacked together a video grabber, a microcontroller running a keyboard emulation, and a few adapters.

What’s that good for, you ask? He now has a low-cost solution to access the video output of a wide range of small embedded devices and control them via (emulated) keyboard. This should come in quite handy the next time your Raspberry Pi or similar is stuck and need to debug it.

Read all the nitty gritty details over on makefu’s blog: A Software KVM Switch

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Quick-Fire Lessons Tuesday Weekly

Hey folks! Simply drop in to soak up the knowledge – for free! This week’s Quick Fire Lessons will take place at 091 Labs at the regular time of 6:30pm on Tuesday. Our next class will see us focus on JavaScript were we will introduce node.js. Keep an eye on our social media for updates. […]

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Listen To Music Composed By A Pillow

Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay and Hungarian cimbalom players Bálint Tárkány-Kovács turn traditional embroidery into musical compositions in a collaborative project called "Sound Weaving."

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Detecting 3D Printed Guns and Other Highlights from the Museum of Science and Industry Manchester

The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) occupies the site of the Liverpool Road Station, the world’s first railway station. It served as the Manchester terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), an important route ferrying commercial and public traffic between these two key cities. Exhibits at MOSI include […]

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