In Mark Frauenfelder’s keynote this year at WebVisions he spoke about the rise of “modern making,” the amateur inventors working out of their homes and building amazing things with limited budgets and access only to consumer technology. Early in the talk, he mentioned this statistic: in 1900 40% of Americans lived on farms, today the [...]
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Some Links
May 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Small Things
Wired talks CubeSat: “They do it dirty and cheap, but their results are competitive with their spendier counterparts.”
CubeSat of Love
May 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Small Things
While doing some research about play and design at signtific.org, which I fully plan on talking about soon, my attention was drawn to talk there of something I had never heard of before, something called a “CubeSat.” If you’re not familiar with the CubeSat, it’s defined, according to wikipedia, as “a type of miniaturized satellite [...]
The End of the World. Or Something.
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Small Things
A few months ago I was listening to NPR and there was a person on talking about the miniaturization of technology and it’s relationship to the power of the individual. The rationale went something like this: 100 years ago, to launch a serious military attack against a country would require an army of tens or [...]
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