Wired Wednesday: Pebby, Autolivery & Tetrabins
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:
With the closing of Google Reader, something that I literally used hundreds of times a day, I had to find a replacement. Everyone seemed to jump to Feedly, Flipboard, Digg, the Old Reader or a handful of others that seemed to have sprung up after Google’s announcement. I’m pretty sure I tried them all. There…
Recently I took a workshop at the Vancouver Hackspace on SMD soldering which is the process of soldering surface mount devices (aka really TINY parts). This is the kind of soldering usually done by robots to help shrink down our electronic devices and isn’t typically done by hand. I’ve been wanting to learn how to…
I bought and assembled my first 3d printer kit last summer, a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic (the device in the middle). Since then, it’s printed the Reprap Prusa Mendel printer (on the left) which I assembled and gives me a bigger build area. Both of those printers have contributed different parts (in ABS and PLA plastics) for…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Scanadu’s Scout tricorder: an entrant in the Tricorder XPrize contest, the Scout is Scanadu’s crack at bringing the famous medical diagnosis device from Star Trek to a reality. The $150 device due out next year packs a lot into it’s 2 inch…