Interactive Device Design
By Andrew Milmoe | Articles and links tangential or directly related to the course I'm teaching at UC Berkeley School of Engineering, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
SAP Leonardo Community Backs Kiva Entrepreneurs in openSAP Partnership
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets,” Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci once said.True to …
SAP SEIn Just 7 Words, Apple CEO Tim Cook Shows Why the Future of Apple Might Be Doomed
It's no longer about the customer experience.<p>At Apple's Special Event on Tuesday, the company unveiled its latest smartphone--known as the iPhone X--which will include facial-recognition software and a $999 price tag.<p>The X is an extremely beautiful device, with a stainless steel band and glass back …
Syllabus sharing: Electronics and Sculpture, a class with arduino, mechatronics, and art at UWM – implicit art… restart
This term sees my first time teaching a full semester of Arduino in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Most …
Beer Game
THE RULES<p>NUMBER OF PLAYERS<p>Up to four people, each assumes the role of a company (with fewer than four players, ghost players take the vacant …
The best smart pill dispenser (so far)
<i>By Kit Dillon</i><p><i>This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer's guide to the best homewares. When readers choose to buy The Sweethome's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. Read the full article here.</i><p>After researching 22 pill …
HackingWhy you'll wear a body camera
InfoTrends says people will take 1.2 trillion digital photos this year. That's 100 billion more than last year and nearly double the number taken as …
$9 Internet Of Things Integrated Platform Unveiled
Bolt a new Internet of Things integrated platform specifically created for fast development and deployment of IoT projects has been unveiled this …
At Apple's new summer camp, high school kids can build the next big thing
Can adults apply, too?<p>In a nondescript Apple office building in Cupertino, California, a group of engineers has spent the past four weeks working feverishly on the next big thing in consumer hardware, prototyping a water-saving shower head, a new version of the Apple Watch, and a “smart” water …
EducationDesigners Are Forgetting One Major Element Of The Design Process
What do you do with broken products? You fix them.<p>What do you do when your toaster breaks?<p>Chances are, you toss it and buy another one. It’s only a toaster, after all. But what if your toaster was designed so that it’s easy to fix? What if a screwdriver and a replacement part could save you that …
A Cheap, Simple Way to Make Anything a Touch Pad - MIT Technology Review
How would you like a toy, steering wheel, wall, or electric guitar with a touch pad?<p>You probably encounter small touch screens every day—on phones …
RoboticsRoadie Automatic Guitar Tuner
Roadie 2 Automatic Standalone Guitar Tuner<p>the latest innovation in string instrument tuning<p>Roadie<p>Delivered within days<p>$ 99<p>String Gauge<br>• Rotation …
Your Pioneering Project Could Earn a Rolex Award for Making a Significant Impact
<i>Featured Image: Andrew Bastawrous’ Portable Eye Examination Kit (Peek). Photo courtesy of Rolex</i><p>The pages of <i>Make:</i> are consistently filled with creative projectsprovided by the magazine’s contributors. Many have practical applications, and some might lead directly, or even indirectly, to a project …
This ‘third thumb’ is the unnecessary prosthetic of my dreams
Two words: why not?<p>Dani Clode is a grad student at London’s Royal College of Art (RCA) and her latest creation is something called The Third Thumb: a 3D-printed prosthetic that does exactly what its name suggests. “The origin of the word 'prosthesis' meant 'to add, put on to,’ so not to fix or …
RoboticsDesign in the Era of the Algorithm
This is the prose version of a talk I gave in May 2017 at Pixel Up! in Capetown and at An Event Apart in Boston. It riffs on ideas I first explored …
Machine LearningAmazon's Plan to Build a Kickstarter Knockoff Turned Into a Site That Helps Startups Sell Products
In 2015, a group of Amazon employees kicked around ideas for a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding site. The idea didn't get very far, as they soon learned that the market was already crowded.<p>Instead, they discovered that every retail startup was looking for someone to solve the same problem: how to get …
StartupsGE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, …
ManufacturingRise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for?
Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality – ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all – but how can it? By Adam Greenfield<p>In San Francisco, a young engineer hopes to “optimise” his life …
Internet of ThingsA Student’s Guide to UC Berkeley’s Startup Ecosystem
A comprehensive list of resources available for undergraduate entrepreneurs at Cal<p>When I came to Cal, I was excited by the campus’s spirit of …