DIY

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602763/new-rights-to-hack-digital-devices-could-make-us-safer/ This is a step to right direction! →

Halloween is coming, so here are some interesting links to decoration hardware hacks. Gravesend Inn is an attraction that mainly instead of scaring the audience, it’s meant to inspire high school students to go to college and study technology. CNN has made video report The haunted hotel that breeds engineers. Control Geek blog has lots →

http://www.engineersgarage.com/mygarage/making-diy-arduino-pumpkin DIY project idea for halloween. →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-emergency-button-hack-a-nikeipod-sport-kit-to-create-an-elder-alert-system?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook Some old hardware combined with Internet connected Raspberry Pi does the job. →

http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2014/07/the-22-most-brilliant-life-hacks-every-human-being-needs-to-know.html?m=1 Nice list of life hacks. Some hacks look more useful than some other. →

https://opensource.com/life/16/7/getting-serious-about-open-source-homes?sc_cid=701600000011jJaAAI Take advantage of open source green house designs. →

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/fight-right-repair-180959764/ There are too many devices today that are intentionally made unrepairable by the owner – trying to repair can be even illegal. We should have right to repair or even modify things we own. →

http://www.wired.com/2013/06/qq_thompson/ →

RGB LEDs are awesome – especially the new, fancy ones with the WS2812 RGB LED driver. These LEDs can be individually controlled to display red, green, and blue, but interfacing them with a microcontroller or computer. To test controlling WS2812 RGB LEDs I bought a cheap addressable LED strip. An addressable RGB LED strip is →

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/study-you-will-love-your-robot-more-if-you-assemble-it-yourself?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29&utm_content=FaceBook There is IKEA effect also in robotics. →