Hackathon or Block Party?
The National Day of Civic Hacking brought geeks out in force
A Consumer’s Guide to Fake Meat
Foodies in North America and Europe can now choose from among dozens of meat substitutes. But they should choose carefully…
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Hacking for Change Across the U.S.
Federal agencies will offer public data to coders at today's National Day of Civic Hacking
Adventures in Printing Food
3-D kitchen printers produce hits (a deep-fried scallop space shuttle) and misses (square milk)
Demo Mobile Conference Embraces The Internet Of Things
And a Pittsburgh design lab's new tool makes it simple to connect all those things together
A 3-D Printer for Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Researchers hope to one day be able to print out an entire human liver
Easy Prototyping With Microsoft Gadgeteer
Build your own consumer electronics with this system from Microsoft
Electric Car Driving Lessons from Elon Musk and the New York Times
Think of reviewer John Broder as a novice driver, and it all starts to make sense
Video: Build a Coffee-Can Radar
A quick look at the workings of the DIY coffee-can radar from MIT
Coffee-Can Radar
How to build a synthetic-aperture imaging system with tin cans and AA batteries
A Defense Engineer With A Passion For Weather Is Forecasting On Facebook—And Tells You How To Build Your Own Hurricane Forecasts
If you’re tracking Hurricane Sandy you could watch the weather channel; or you could follow a software engineer’s smart, clear analyses of numerical weather prediction models on Facebook.
Open Source's Final Frontier
Advocates of open-source hardware come together in New York City
Electrifying Burning Man
At a desert art festival, power engineers take on challenges they can’t tackle at work, while educating others
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How to Run the Khan Academy Off-line
With a basic knowledge of HTML, you can tailor this complex app to your needs
Pollution-Sensing Kites to Fly in Beijing Skies
This citizen-science initiative will launch in August
Teleconferencing on the Cheap
With Skype and a little hacking, you can converse clearly with a room full of people
Sculpteo wants to be a 3D Shutterfly
This French company says it has blasted through the technical barrier that kept the average consumer from embracing 3D printing
The Aliens Would Win
SETI astronomer and film consultant Seth Shostak weighs in on why correctly depicting alien life wouldn’t work in films
DIY Laser Engraver
A recycled DVD laser makes a great engraving tool
New Startup Incubators Focus on Hardware Engineering
A sign that hardware “makers” are turning from hobbyists to entrepreneurs.
The Poor Man’s Solder Reflow Oven
A cheap controller and a Walmart toaster oven kept the price down
Hacking in the Streets
They’ll be coding, networking, and, most likely, starting a few companies in the streets of Palo Alto this month.
Stepping Up the Search for E.T.
SETI Institute, TED, and the Science Channel team up for a new initiative to seek out new life and new civilizations
Pocket Oscilloscope Review Roundup
We put three miniature oscilloscopes to the test
Turning a DIY Project into a Product
Making something for others, instead of yourself, poses different challenges
IR Eye
A cheap infrared scanner can replace an expensive thermal-imaging camera
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CES 2012: A Week at CES in Tweets
Last week I walked, looked, walked, listened, walked, talked, and tweeted CES. Here's what I had to say.
CES 2012: Playing Asteroids With Just My Eyes
I checked out Tobii’s interactive gaze technology at the Consumer Electronics Show
CES 2012: Talking and Waving to Samsung's Remote-Free TV
"Hello, TV"
In Memoriam: Norman Krim
A tribute to the man who inspired a generation of engineers
Soylent: It's Not People. Or Food.
Too many engineers in the kitchen
Build Your Own Google Glass
A wearable computer that displays information and records video