 Make has a new podcast called Make: Talk. They just did their episode 1, click here to listen to it. The first episode is with Steve Hoefer of Grathio Labs, you might remember him as the guy who made the knock gumball machine and the Knock Lock. Big thanks to Steve for mentioning Hacked Gadgets in the show!
Here is a cheap and easy Mobile Camera Lens Cap Hack using a Magnet and a Coin that you can make for a few dollars and put together in under a minute. Thanks for sending it in Daniel.
Ryan Merl from the Harford Hackerspace needed a coffee maker that did a bit more than your everyday coffee maker. Since don’t we all want one that can accept HTTP requests! With some code and an Arduino this pimped coffee maker is ready to go. “Special Features 15 minute automatic shutoff Controlled via HTTP Requests Status, start, and stop requests Returns JSON for meant for AJAX interfaces Ready and
Carlos Asmat just let us know about a Cloud Robotics Hackathon that will be taking place in Montreal from March 2nd to the 4th. If you are around drop in and participate! “I just wanted to let you know that we are organizing a Cloud Robotics Hackathon that will take place from March 2nd to March 4th. The idea is to bring programmers together (whether they have robotics experience
 If you have a junk box full of all sorts of motors from printers, scanners and other discarded tech you need to know what you have so you can use it in your next project. Thanks to Steaky for sending in this info that was written to help you determine what type of stepper motor you have and how to use it. “Not only do stepper motors come
