Nerd Stalker

When traveling through the Maker Faire, Sony was the last company I expected to see in the Make:Electronics area of the Expo hall. It was pleasant to see that Sony was trying to embrace the maker movement. We interview Takehiro Hagiwara, MESH Project Leader, on their view of bringing creativity and innovation to the common person. Give it a look.

Very exciting times in maker land. At the recent Maker Faire, we sat down with the Atmel team of Bob Martin and Henrik Flodell as they tell us about the new Arduino Zero Board with the Atmel 32bit ARM Cortex-M0 processor. As they tell us in the following video, it is exciting times to be a maker as Atmel helps bring low-power, performance and integrated debugging capability to the Arduino. Check it out!

Heard of ROBLOX? Of course, especially if you are in the 10-18 year old demographic. ROBLOX is the leading Massively Multi-player Online (MMO) game engine which enables young people and the young-at-heart to develop, play and monetize online games. We caught up with David Baszucki , CEO and co-founder of this popular MMO game platform at the recent Maker Faire - Bay Area. David discusses ROBLOX and some interesting ROBLOX news like Developers Exchange Program, upcoming Android release and how Movie brands are using the ROBLOX platform. Check out his video!

I thought DIY PCs were a thing of the past. One thing to note, they were never open source - always in jail-mode. Enter bunnie:studios Novena the truly open source, Jail-broken, Linux-based laptop. You want the pc board gerber files, or the Linux code, or the 3D case models, you can download it. How cool is that? Who can bet against co-founders named "bunnie" and " xobs ?" We interview co-founder, Andrew "bunnie" Huang at the 2014 Maker Faire about their open source creation. Give it a view.