JohnRebecca FoleyArduino Rising: 10 Amazing Projects People Are Doing With The Tiny MicrocontrollerReadWrite - Lauren orsiniThis past Saturday marked World Arduino Day, an eponymous celebration of the first decade of the open-source single-board microcontroller designed for do-it-yourself electronics projects. Developed in 2004 for Italian design students, Arduino quickly became a favorite for builders and makers all …
JohnRebecca FoleyOver 20,000 historical maps are now free to download from the New York Public Libraryverified_publisherThe Verge - Valentina PalladinoCartophiles rejoice — the NYPL recently made over 20,000 historical maps from its database free to access, download, and use. The library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division created an entire website called Map Warper where users can create an account and access all the maps, which are …
JohnRebecca FoleyA 3D-printed house is being built right now in Amsterdamverified_publisherThe Verge - Adi RobertsonArchitects in Amsterdam have begun construction on what they're calling the first full-sized 3D-printed house. Using what's essentially a large-scale version of a desktop 3D printer, Dus Architects is building what will eventually be a 13-room Dutch canal house made of interlocking plastic parts. …
JohnRebecca FoleyThe Mythical 'Map Of The Internet 2.0' Is Even Better Than The Firstverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Paul SzoldraAmateur graphic designer Martin Vargic has put together the second version of his "Map of the Internet," and not surprisingly, it's even better than the first. His original map, put together using Photoshop along with data from Alexa, featured websites as different countries within different …
JohnRebecca FoleyMicrosoft Releases Source Code for MS DOS and Microsoft Wordverified_publisherTNW - Emil ProtalinskiMicrosoft today released the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a. With the help of the Computer History Museum, the move means means this code is now available to the public. MS-DOS was a renamed version of 86-DOS, written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer …