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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    Very cool Phil! Thank you so much! I'm seriously looking at a Arduino kit and Chumby (which someone on Giz just recently covered) now to start hacking. I've never done anything like this, but it gives me a lot of ideas and makes it all seem a little less intimidating!
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    This list makes me want to pull out my soldering iron and PIC development kit and hack up a few projects again. It has been too many years, it could take me some time to relearn all the component selection and circuit layout for when I need to order the boards.
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    No, Giz. Just no. Arduino is getting TOO OVERUSED AND OVERHYPED.

    It's like this: Day after day of posts on various webblogs of projects... all with the stupid @#%#% Arduino. Why can't people be original anymore and, oh, I don't know, try using original designs for electronics/microcontroller projects?
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    11/18/09

    @dragon:ONE: an arduino doesn't do anything on its own, the makers out there do amazing projects - that's why it's covered on many sites. if you want to see a project with a PIC or an ARM, just do it and share it!
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    11/18/09

    @dragon:ONE: @dragon:ONE: Really? That's your take? You consider any Arduino-based project unoriginal? Seriously? I completely disagree and see Arduino as a vehicle for unleashing creativity. I'd love to see all of the non-Arduino-based creativity you personally happen to be unleashing upon the world.
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    11/18/09

    @dragon:ONE: Do you make your own pencils? Salt? Cookware? All of these are used creatively, and so is Arduino. Okay, so maybe Arduino is like the Lowes of microcontrollers, not quite what you want but it'll do and it's available. Not everybody who wants to make a better moustrap wants to make a computer to run it. An off-the-shelf component means they can get to the fun part faster.
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    11/18/09

    @dragon:ONE: Try a qualude. Or 3...
    Yeah, real bad ideas this article might give people, learning new skills, inventing something new, etc. You don't like it, don't read it.
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    Image of Tru Invincible Tru Invincible
    11/19/09

    @dragon:ONE: Woah there Lifehackers. Its all love here! I like to circuit bend and I like to find any sweet-ass way to do it. Link me to some hotness.
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    11/19/09

    @Tru Invincible: hit the MAKE site and just search for circuit bending, there are free how-tos, articles and maybe 500 blog posts that have links to how-tos and examples
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    Image of Tru Invincible Tru Invincible
    11/20/09

    @pmtorrone: The-hank yee-hue.
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    Image of minibeardeath minibeardeath
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    i actually redisend the circuit board for the tv-b-gone to be single sided and all i need to make it work is to replace the microcontroller cause a pin broke off
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    Dope compilation! I've been interested in the SpokePOV for awhile now. Funny thing about DIY/Make/Hacked gifts is that by some kinda cosmic happenstance my brother and I are making/hacking each other gifts for christmas. I'm building him an HTPC (currently XBMC based) and he's building me a carbonfiber bike frame.

    Living in LowCal though, if 'aving a carbon fiber fixie isn't going to get the bike stolen, 'aving SpokePOV most definitely is! x_x
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    People complained about Gizmodo's CES shenanigans not because we wanted to see those TVs running, but because you knowingly made people's lives difficult. Turning off a presenter's display once is an amusing prank. Turning it off five times is just mean-spirited.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    11/18/09

    @CaseyG: Just to be clear, the writer, Phil Torrone, is not a Giz staffer, so he is commenting on this as an outsider.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    I have one order of Chumby guts winging its way towards me as we speak, all ready to be assembled and put in a custom case. Can't wait to start tweaking it. MakerSHED seems to still have a few sets left if there's anyone else out there that wants to build their own Chumby.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    CNC is pretty close to your fantasy gadget at least for making purely mechanical parts...insert CAD drawing...part comes out. Success!
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    Actually, I could probably use a lot of this for maintaining the wife's pinball machine.
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    11/18/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: If that's a euphemism... I like it.
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    11/18/09

    @beercheck: Actually, my wife came with her very own full-size Twilight Zone pinball machine. Though I suppose I could use the same tools to repair "personal massagers".
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    Excellent post but unfortunately based on what I've read here I think the sentiment may be lost on Gizmodos "I want to buy it shiny and new instead of getting dirty and make it" group of commenters and writers.
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    11/18/09

    @Ryan Robinson: I think you may be generalizing a little too much... and giving a lot of people a lot less credit than they deserve. Just because we LIKE to buy shiny and new gizmos and talk about our shiny new gizmos that we bought doesn't mean that deep down we don't wish we could do it ourselves.
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    11/18/09

    @bucklefilledbird: Actually I spent a lot of time in college doing repairs on boards for PDP11/780s and associated hardware (reel-to-reel systems etc), robots, lasers, PLCs etc.
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    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    "Phil Torrone is the senior editor at MAKE magazine and creative director for Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware manufacturer in NYC."

    oh, so that explains why all the links to the gift ideas went to Mr. Torrone's website...

    Maybe we can get an article from Axe next about the wonderful world of Body Spray gift ideas.
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    Image of Grinning Kestrel Grinning Kestrel
    11/18/09

    @Cheatachu: You're a deeply jaded person, aren't you?
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    11/18/09

    @Grinning Kestrel: Still...
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    Wish I read this before I graduated with my EE degree.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    11/18/09

    In reply to Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
    The Arduino is a fantastic creation.

    love it!
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    11/18/09

    @Dr. H. F. Danger: You are correct sir. Arduino is an excellent tool for designers, developers or just the regular schmuck who wants to get dirty in some hardware programming.

    Arduino + Max/MSP = WIN
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    11/18/09

    @Kung-Fu Kurtis Carnivale of Carnage: Arduinome + Max/MSP for Ableton Live = OVER 9000
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    07/09/09

    In reply to Citizen Engineer Releases a Comic All About SIM Hacking (and Tosses in a SIM Reader for Good Measure)
    This is actually a pretty good idea...making security holes common knowledge makes the holes get filled.
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    07/09/09

    In reply to Citizen Engineer Releases a Comic All About SIM Hacking (and Tosses in a SIM Reader for Good Measure)
    My name is spelled Fried
    thanks!
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