- Infosthetics Competition: Build a Paper-Based Visualization – information aesthetics – Inspired by my Paper Graphs, Infosthetics is hosting a competition to create a paper based visualisation. "Criteria: beauty and originality versus readability and usability". I'm a judge.
- PMD – The Pac-Man Dungeons – Pac-Man as a text adventure.
- News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Greatest ever letter of complaint – "imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about.
Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing."
Very funny letter of complaint sent to Richard Branson. - vidar.gimp.org » graphtecprint – Linux support for the Graphtec CC2200-20.
- Graphtec Craft ROBO – Mulberry design + print – An A4 plotter.
- Adactio: Journal—PaperCamp – Jeremy Keith's live blogging of PaperCamp.
- Open Manufacturing – (How to Build 30 (SERB) Kits) – Interesting instructable on how they setup a tabletop factory for mass producing an arduino-based robot.
- Technobots Shop – A source of toys.
- Motorway map of England, Scotland and Wales – Motorway map in the style of the London Underground map.
- James Governor’s Monkchips » My Team Of The Year Award: IBM EightBar, Hursley Labs – "My Team of 2008 award goes to IBM’s Eight Bar at Hursley Labs. RedMonk celebrates makers and doers – these guys exemplify getting on with it."
- The Arduino AA Undershield – A battery pack shield for Arduino.
- Making Electricity Usage Graphs with the Current Cost device – Using rrdtool to log currentcost data. rrdtool is one of those things that I've never quite spent enough time understanding.
- Spectacular HomeCamp feedback! – Some talk heads about HomeCamp. Interesting to hear what people got out of the event. I'm in there somewhere babbling on a bit wishing I had thought about what to say first.
- Tinker it now! » Stuff and things – My arduino hacking gets a mention on tinker.it.
- Arduino Blog » Blog Archive » The Internet of Arduino – The arduino ethernet shield is announced. I have been playing with this for a few months now – lots of potential uses.
- Star Wars ABC: A is for Ackbar – "Illustrator Michael Fleming has drawn a wonderful kid-friendly alphabet using characters from the Star Wars universe."
- Multicolr Search Lab – Idée Inc. – Search for CC photos on flickr based on colours.
- Charlie’s Diary: On finishing – "Creativity is a weird thing. You can plod along a steep uphill road for months, or it can hit you like an express train. I've learned to go with the flow when this happens: if a story wants to escape it's best to let it out, to go with the flow and worry about cleaning up the schedule afterwards."
Charlie gives an insight into what its like to finish writing a novel. Even if it is 18months early.
- BBC Common Platform: From my notebook – "Rights" is often used as the reason the BBC struggles to be more open with its content. As a part of his Common platform work, Steve points out that "there are other obstacles to sharing—many in fact. This chart is a first attempt at capturing all the reasons the BBC might come up with for not opening up…"
- Daves Logs – An environmentally friendly source of logs for the wood burner.
- MAKE: Blog: Understanding I2C – "a helpful primer on interfacing electronic components via the handy I2C protocol and Arduino"
- Young Bond: The Shadow War – Six To Start's latest offering – an ARG tied to the Young Bond series. A new mission will be put each week for the next seven weeks, culminating with a live event on October 8th featuring Charlie Higson.
- Google on Google Chrome – comic book – Google announce the Google Chrome web browser in the form of a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud. Some interesting things here.
- MAKE: Blog: Build Your Own Mid-Century Modern Birdhouse –
- Video: How Sheldon is created » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog –
- BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New role for BBC Two controller – "BBC Two controller Roly Keating is to become the corporation's first director of archive content, responsible for improving public access to the BBC's constantly expanding archive of television, radio and multimedia content."
- Tilted Twister – a Lego Mindstorms robot that solves Rubik’s cube –
- shewentofherownaccord.com – Roo Reynolds and Nick O’Leary | O’ReillyGMT – Craig Smith recognised us at Open Tech 2008. Here is the video interview we did about shewentofherownaccord.com
- Interesting 2008 | From the Guardian | guardian.co.uk – Videos from the day are being hosted by the Guardian.
