Why design cannot remain exclusive

The Open Design Now website is well designed. I have the book (available for loan, as are other books), but hadn’t seen the site before. A useful and interesting resource.



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Engineering for Real-World Problems

Ten tips on using your maker skills for humanitarian, environmental, and social causes.

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Muzzley and Intel Galileo LED strip demo

Muzzley provides libraries for the most popular languages and platforms and in this project allows you to control a led strip with a mobile device (iOS and Android) using an Intel Galileo Board: We integrated Muzzley into an Intel Galileo board so that we could control an RGB LED strip with our smartphone through the […]



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Arduino Helper Functions

Sometimes finding the right snippet of code to use in your Arduino sketch is as simple as reading the Monday Jolt on the MAKE site.

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Pixelated: The LED Art of Jim Campbell

Sculpture-video hybrids from artist Jim Campbell, who uses cutting-edge technology to produce low-resolution works.

















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Business as Unusual

GSA occupies an interesting space in Higher Education. It is (very) small by Higher Education standards, and based in Scotland (where tuition fees, for home students at least, don’t yet exist), on the fringes of Europe and the UK, in a city that has a well connected thriving artistic community. It is a designated SSI […]



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Wanted: Arduino Projects for Arduino Day

We're looking to feature your projects here on the MAKE blog all through next week. If you're not going to be able to show off your project at your local Arduino event on Arduino Day, maybe you should show it off to the world?

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RFID Power Ups Transform Go-karting Into Mario Karting

MAKE's Matt Richardson gets a behind-the-scenes look at how Penzoil and Nintendo created a real-life experience inspired by the popular MarioKart video game.

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Tim Cook tells Apple's climate-skeptic shareholders where to shove it

Apple CEO Tim Cook has unleashed a blistering response on shareholders who questioned the company's switch to renewable energy, telling them to get out of Apple stock.

Since Cook became CEO, the company has vastly increased the amount of renewable energy powering its facilities worldwide. More than three-quarters now run on solar, wind, hydroelectric or geothermal power, up from about a quarter when he took charge of the company.

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