Nick Bilton

Reconfigurable House 2 at Place@Space at Z33.be from Adam Somlai-Fischer on Vimeo A fascinating project coming out on July 4th-6th at the Hungarian Cultural Centre in London. The project is called The Scattered House and is best described as: The…

A few weeks ago Danielle made some homemade marshmallows that were sacrificed to a jacobs ladder with the partial goal of toasting them—as you can see from the video, it pretty much did the trick. Well the edification of some…

I was on a photography lightning kick for a little while… whenever a storm struck in Brooklyn I ran to my deck, set up the camera on a tripod and opened the timer for 30 seconds, hoping that luck was…

Pleo is a company making intersting ‘robots for human interaction’. The video above is a demo of Ugobi, a life-like dinosaur. It has 35 touch sensors in it’s back and numerous servos controling all aspects of it’s body. It’s a…

Very clever video featuring a large handful of famous YouTubers (not imitation actors). Pretty smart stuff.

We have our monthly study group coming up. Bring your projects to discuss with a group of like minded nerdy people, chat about potential blinking, buzzing, whirring things you’d like to build, or come by and talk to us about…

Just a reminder that we have a bunch of great classes coming up in the next couple of months. There’s our Soldering 101, Electronics 102, Electonics – Simple Circuits 101, Gameboy Hacking 101, Rapid Prototyping with Blender, and then there’s…

Liquidware has a great touch shield out for the Arduino. It’s a 128×128 OLED display with a resistive touch screen on top. It can hold up to 60 full screen images and only uses pins 3 and 4 on your…

This weekend will be New York’s first Robotics Competition. It’s going to be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center @ 655 W. 34th St., New York, NY 10001 and will including a bunch of funny looking robots running…