Cooking for Geeks at CES

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Sherry Huss, Maker Media's Director of Sales and Events, posted this phonecam pic on Facebook of Jeff Potter's Cooking for Geeks, spotted at the Wired Science Station. Wired is also featuring a MakerBot in their Maker Station.


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Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/cooking_for_geeks_at_ces.html

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Lego picture puzzle

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This is Ravel, a picture puzzle. You are a postman who one day wakes up in a mysterious place. What is going on, is it a dream? You come across a signpost in the road. It reads:

Welcome friend to a place called Ravel,
Should you wish to leave; there's no need to travel.
Open your mind and believe what you see,
Follow my words carefully and you will be free.

Beware the creature chained to the guillotine,
A close encounter, and death he will bring.
He bears your semblance like a deranged twin,
To get past you must slay him from within.

The weapon you seek is neither sword nor spear,
It is rather small and shaped like a sphere.
But judge not this toxic fruit by its size,
The bones of the Great Beast tell no lies.

Finding the exit is your next task,
There's no gate or portal, so don't even ask.
Look to the stars and you will find your way,
They light your path as clear as day.

Point the Northern Star southeast,
To the south you will shine the Star of the Northeast
Point the Eastern Star southwest
And the Southwest Star east. (You're almost done with your quest!)

The obsidian block marks the compass center,
And where the light beams cross, there you will enter.
Pick up the tools once guarded by the creature,
Now dig dig dig your way to departure!

Puzzle by Nannan Zhang. Click the image to biggify. Solution here.

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Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/lego_picture_puzzle.html

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Yarn Monster

Q: What's small, remote controlled, able to eat yarn and excrete perfectly formed yarn balls?

A: Yarn Monster!

Yarn Monster was conceived when SparkFun customer Todd Treece was helping his girlfriend with some knitting.  Ensnared by the tedious task of balling the yarn manually, Todd had plenty of time to think of more creative ways to perform such menial labor. He set out to build a custom solution that not only did the job for you but also seemed to be quietly watching you as you carefully crafted clothing from its food source.

The end result is powered by a stepper motor which is driven by an Easy Driver and an Arduino Pro Mini. Speed instructions are sent to the monster via XBee from a remotely connected potentiometer that looks strikingly similar to its mother. Check out the full parts list here.

It should also be noted that SparkFun customer Todd Treece is soon to be SparkFun employee Todd Treece! We found out about Yarn Monster with Todd's application for PHP Developer (one down but still hiring for more!). Soon the father of the Yarn Monster will be amid our developer circle, writing code and fixing bugs - a process not dissimilar from untangling messy yarn knots.

Source: http://www.sparkfun.com/news/517

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Taylor Cox replied to Ground Loop's discussion 'Potentially fatal bug in Arducopter?'

Taylor Cox replied to Ground Loop's discussion 'Potentially fatal bug in Arducopter?'
For one, when I use GPS hold I don't ever use the throttle when GPS hold is engaged. It's easier to get your copter to the right altitude on stable mode and then switch it to GPS hold when you want to hold altitude. Thats just me tho.

Source: http://diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844:Comment:249114?xg_source=activity

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In the Maker Shed: Bulbdial Clock kit

The Bulbdial Clock kit works like an indoor sundial, but with three shadows of different length. You tell the time just like you do on a normal clock, by reading the positions of the hour, minute, and second hands. The kit comes complete with three custom circuit boards, 72 ultrabright LEDs, pre-programmed ATmega168 microcontroller with Arduino bootloader, tactile button switches, aluminum standoffs, 20 ppm quartz crystal, custom clock face, gnomon spike, universal-input plug-in power supply, stainless mounting hardware, plus the resistors, capacitors and other little parts needed to build the Bulbdial clock. We even included a laser-cut acrylic case!

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Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/01/in_the_maker_shed_bulbdial_clock_ki.html

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Open Lidar Project

We're big fans of promoting the adoption of free software for robotics use so we couldn't pass this story up. William Cox of RobotBox is offering a bounty to free software developers and robot hackers who are willing to reverse engineer the laser rangefinder on Neato Robotics's XV-11.

Inspired by Ladyada's Kinect bounty, I thought, "hey, why can't I do that?" So, I'm offering a $200 bounty to the first person that successfully hacks Neato Robotics's XV-11 floor vacuuming robot's laser rangefinder and releases open source documentation/drivers for using it on a robot. This type of sensor would be a great asset to small (and large) mobile robots and it's a steal for the $399 it costs to buy the Neato robot. I want to kickstart the process of documenting how to use it.

Maybe a kickstarter campaign should be set up because Willaim's $200 bounty has already been upped to $300. RobotNV on the Trossen Robotics forums is contributing another $100 towards the bounty. Anyone else out there want to chip in a few bucks to help promote software freedom and help reverse engineer some pretty cool hardware for robots?

Source: http://robots.net/article/3074.html

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