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  • PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone

    Here’s my latest DIY project, a smartphone based on a Raspberry Pi. It’s called – wait for it – the PiPhone. It makes use an Adafruit touchscreen interface and a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module to make phone calls. via PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone. Dave Hunt doesn’t just do photography, he’s a Maker through and…

  • ‘Gods’ Make Comeback at Toyota as Humans Steal Jobs From Robots – Bloomberg

    “We need to become more solid and get back to basics, to sharpen our manual skills and further develop them,” said Kawai, a half century-long company veteran tapped by President Akio Toyoda to promote craftsmanship at Toyota’s plants. “When I was a novice, experienced masters used to be called gods, and they could make anything.”…

  • Make Way For More Flexible, Business-Focused Raspberry Pi

    Wow this has gotten my brain to working overtime. How small can you go with System on Chip like fully integrated Raspberry Pi modules? Could you fit this not just on an SO-DIMM but also maybe an SDXC sized memory card? Or a Micro-SDXC card? Imagine that. And if you want to see an even…

  • Picture This: Hosted Lifebits in the Personal Cloud | Cloudline | Wired.com

    It’s not just photos. I want the same for my whole expanding set of digital objects, including medical and financial records, commercial transactions, personal correspondence, home energy use data, you name it. I want all of my lifebits to be hosted in the cloud under my control. Is that feasible? Technically there are huge challenges,…

  • Hope for a Tool-Less Tomorrow | iFixit.org

    I’ve seen the future, and not only does it work, it works without tools. It’s moddable, repairable, and upgradeable. Its pieces slide in and out of place with hand force. Its lid lifts open and eases shut. It’s as sleek as an Apple product, without buried components or proprietary screws. via Hope for a Tool-Less…

  • Data hand tools – O’Reilly Radar

    Any person who does computer support avoids certain ‘technologies’ like the plague. Usually fear is the single biggest reason why. Commandlines, shell scripting, programming are all things some people avoid because they never learned it or come from an unrelated background (like the Humanities). While they are functional outside of those areas (Hey I can…

  • Showcase Your Skills & Analyze Which Skills Are Trending With LinkedIn’s New Tool

    Apart from making friends/connections and advertising your skills and interests, LinkedIn collects data on all the traffic through their pages. What better way to see what jobs skills are popular and being consumed by potential employers within the LinkedIn Universe. Better than job numbers that’s for sure.

  • Drain the carburetor bowl on your mower

    There is so much “stuff” in gasoline today that is not native to the crude oil from which it was distilled. There’s all kinds of additives to improve this, or stop that, prevent the other that over time they begin to settle out. It’s not a perfect mixture today’s gasoline, it’s more an emulsion of…

  • Consumer Reports: Sharpen your mower blade

    Is it really safe to sharpen a lawnmower blade with Dremel tool? And by safe I mean, Will it weaken the edge of the blade? Let’s discuss it.