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more about #philtorrone MIKERIOSISAWHORE.COM: 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 hacki... more » travisco_nabisco: 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 t... more » dragon:ONE: 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 t... more » minibeardeath: 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 pi... more » 00000000: 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 happenst... more » CaseyG: People complained about Gizmodo's CES shenanigans not because we wanted to see those TVs running, but because you knowingly made people's lives diffic... more » madnys: 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 tweaki... more » TheCrudMan: CNC is pretty close to your fantasy gadget at least for making purely mechanical parts...insert CAD drawing...part comes out. Success! more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Actually, I could probably use a lot of this for maintaining the wife's pinball machine. more » Ryan Robinson: 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... more » Cheatachu: "Phil Torrone is the senior editor at MAKE magazine and creative director for Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware manufacturer in NYC." oh, ... more » gemcosta: Wish I read this before I graduated with my EE degree. more » Dr. H. F. Danger: The Arduino is a fantastic creation. love it! more » Con Seannery: This is actually a pretty good idea...making security holes common knowledge makes the holes get filled. more » ladyada: My name is spelled Fried thanks! more » Geisrud: I just loop the sound effect from transformers when they..err...transform. more » Curves: I do my best cooking with Van Halen. more » Famf: No Daft Punk's Technologic? more » pmtorrone: hiya everyone, just to make sure it's clear and credited properly - this project was developed by limor fried ([www.adafruit.com]) and myself. as far ... more » Kaiser-Machead: And like MeanMF, Tweet-A-Watt does not sound savory in the least. Now say it 3 x fast. more » -
#giftguide
Hands-On Gifts for Hackers, Makers and the DIY Obsessed
Hi there, I'm Phil. I live in an electronics factory, and regularly need to pluck microcontrollers out of my feet when walking around barefoot. I thought I could bring some of that joy to you in a gift guide. More » -
#opensource
Citizen Engineer Releases a Comic All About SIM Hacking (and Tosses in a SIM Reader for Good Measure)
Phil Torrone and Limor Freid of Adafruit Industries have a video project called Citizen Engineer, where they aim to educate and entertain when it comes to various aspects of open source hacking. Now they've released a comic to go with it. More » -
#listeningtest
Let's Get Busy: Songs to Listen to While Making Things
Phil Torrone, senior editor of MAKE and creative director for DIY site Adafruit, is a DIY guru and all-around good guy. So we had him give us good songs to listen to while building stuff. More » -
#smugalert
Tweet-a-Watt, Because It's OK To Brag About Energy Efficiency
Phil at Make has developed a mod for the Kill-A-Watt power meter: Tweet-a-Watt transmits your daily power usage to Twitter via PC, so friends and strangers will know you're a smug, super-green SOB. More » -
#gadgets
Maker Faire Hits Bay Area May 3 and 4
Maker Faire is in town again, hitting up the bay area with their ridiculously dangerous projects and robots and flaming robot projects this May 3 and 4. If you're in town, you should stop by and see what the crazy doctor Phil Torrone has cooking for you. At the very least, you can stop by and say hi to the Giz folks that are going to be down there. Maybe even buy them some soda. Trying to take pictures of stuff next open flames and wildly careening robots is thirsty work. [Maker Faire] -
