Closed Wednesday, November 11th (Remembr...

Well, it certainly has been a busy week! Particularly for our pals over at SparkFun, who just wrapped up their third annual Free Day. This is quickly becoming a favourite spectator sport around the office, as every year we tune in to watch the available money evaporate and/or their website/servers die a horrible, horrible death. […]

Solarbotics is helping out local fashion designers prepare their e-wearables for the Calgary MakeFashion. This time, Tony Grimes dropped in to experiment with his fiber-optic cloth from SensingTex as an illuminating surface, but the included 5mm LED was not dazzling enough. Time to hack in our 3W RGB Star Controller! The plan was to shift […]

Wondering what Mark Tilden and his crew at Wow-Wee have been up to lately? Thanks to Engadget and the BEAM-mailing list, we can see what they've released at the latest "Consumer Electronics Show" (CES), here on this page and this page. Love the Elvis head... just gotta drop that chip into the monkey head they […]

So, I writes this book, see? And it sells pretty good, so in November, I orders more books, see? And they says "HEY! We gots none left - calm down, we're printing more". So, I sits and waits, and FINALLY they comes in! Here's the great part: It looks like this is the new printing, […]