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Should I get a Raspberry Pi or an UDOO?

Should I get a Raspberry Pi or an UDOO?

October 23, 2013 · 3 minutes · 2 photos

_About the Author: Kirill Zubovsky is the founder of Scoutzie.com, a marketplace for great mobile and web design. He is an engineer, designer and also an alumni of YCombinator. _

Small and inexpensive computers for geeks are gaining momentum like wildfire. Raspberry…

Next Hack Things Meetup is Sept. 20th

Next Hack Things Meetup is Sept. 20th

September 15, 2013 · 3 minutes · 3 photos

The next Hack Things meetup is right around the corner. This Friday in Seattle, we’ll be having 3 great speakers plus open show-and-tell. Each speaker is going to demo a product they have developed, sharing with us their story from concept to…

Rideye is a black-box recorder for cyclists

Rideye is a black-box recorder for cyclists

September 14, 2013 · 2 minutes

Rideye is a black-box recorder for cyclists. Like a helmet, it’s something you’d have with you every time you bike, and it’s useful truly only when things go terribly wrong. Like the black-boxed on airplanes, Rideye’s purpose is to capture useful evidence…

Pick a Brand Name People Can Remember

Pick a Brand Name People Can Remember

August 26, 2013 · 6 minutes · 2 photos

About the Author: Marc Barros is the co-founder and former CEO of Contour Cameras. He started the company, without any hardware experience, out of a garage as an undergraduate student and lead it to a multi-million dollar business with product sold in…

Recap of August 2nd Hack Things Meetup at Synapse

Recap of August 2nd Hack Things Meetup at Synapse

August 02, 2013 · 1 minute

We had a Hack Things Meetup at Synapse today with a great turnout (~90 people), and two nice presentations followed by Q&A. Thanks to Synapse for hosting and to Highway1 for sponsoring the event!

Skooks Pong from Synapse gave a talk about…

Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop (August 10-11, Portland)

Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop (August 10-11, Portland)

July 31, 2013 · 1 minute

Hack music much? Travis Feldman (of HAXLR8R company Molecule Synth and a speaker at a prior Hack Things meetup in June) has launched another Kickstarter for BPOW: Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop, a 2-day interactive festival (August 10th and 11th in Portland, Oregon)…

Hack Your Own Dash Cam with Raspberry Pi

Hack Your Own Dash Cam with Raspberry Pi

July 29, 2013 · 1 minute

You might already know that most modern cars have an OBD-II port designed for repair technicians but which provides a wealth of information to hackers such as engine speed, steering angle, RPMs and fuel level. Martin O’Hanlon ** posted about a project…

Startup Weekend Maker Edition Recap

Startup Weekend Maker Edition Recap

July 01, 2013 · 3 minutes

The inaugural Startup Weekend Maker Edition took place this weekend, with around 75 participants joining from all around the Pacific Northwest and as far away as Taiwan to pitch their ideas, form teams and 3d-print, soldier, mill and glue their way to…