Media has made drones scary, but they can be useful tools to many industries, such as agriculture. Drones give farmers a better ability to see problems and target various treatments, as opposed to blanket solutions. Since these are open source, farmers can collaborate on uses. Because farmers aren’t corporations, like big Ag, they’re allowed to …
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The value of fixing it
This was a different presentation than I expected. I thought it would be about fixing your own appliances, but Sean Riley is the host of a show I’ve been missing on National Geographic, World’s Toughest Fixes. In the vein of Dirty Jobs, WTF focuses on the folks who fix the things we depend on when …
Stout ice cream
Dulce de leche w/ a stout finish
Faultline Seafood Gumbo
Thieves’ Salad at Thai Chili
Magnetic Bumper stickers
Bumper stickers are a fun media for expressing your thoughts or offering support for causes or products. Magnetizing bumper stickers gives you the freedom to change the placement, rotate through favorites, and/or have your stickers safe from destruction at the car wash. Sheet magnets can be found at places like TAP Plastic, or in printer-friendly …
Partial eclipse today
Wearable Computing
The panel at Maker Faire consisted of three wearable computing innovators, and their mentor, Lynne Bruning. Each maker used different techniques for their projects, and each project went a different direction. Ally Seeley‘s project was the most serious and the most elegant. She’s turned toward using tiny electronics into a glove, and later, perhaps other …
Did I mention that it’s hot?
Code Is Literacy: Code Hero
I was warned that the Code Is Literacy people are fanatics, but I attended this session to hear about the intriguing-sounding game, Code Hero. However, the at least the first third of the presentation was a summary of the CIL tenets. When Alex Peake finally got around to describing the game, there was no time …