about open space Welcome to Wired's portal to the commercial space arena. The new space race has a far more diverse list of entrants, and the cast is growing rapidly. We plan to build a resource and a community to help you make sense of this modern spacescape. This is a work in progress that we hope will become more and more useful to our readers, so let us know if there are other features you'd like to see here. SpaceX Launch: Small step or giant leap? How historic is Saturday's launch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule? We asked eight spaceflight experts. Read their answers here. Continue reading →
DIY drones are the rage! Chris flew a quadcopter off the stage, and entertained droves of questions from how much weight the copters can carry, to FAA regulations, and announced that they would have a new ARM-based APM (Ardu Pilot Mega) by Maker Faire New York. Like this:Be the first to like this post. Continue reading →
@chr1sa This one is for you. Arduino books at Barnes and Noble! http://t.co/khOdDlM4 Continue reading →
You may have read that Peter David, The Economist's Washington bureau chief and author of the paper's Lexington column, died in a car crash on Thursday night. Peter was a superb journalist, one of the best The Economist ever hired. His range was stunning. He was recruited in 1984 to write science articles (he was working for Nature at the time), and did that with distinction. Later he became the paper's main authority on the Middle East. He wrote the Bagehot column on British politics. He ran the business sections of the magazine; then, as foreign editor, he ran the international sections. In many of these jobs he was, in The Economist's tradition, both editorial manager and senior writer. In both roles he was respected ... Continue reading →
CUSTOMIZE BY CODING Want your watch to tell you when your next bus is leaving? Maybe your jonesing to see your compile status or recent github commits.. Think push notifications, directly to your watch using the data connection on your phone. Want to check-in on your watch, or create an app that can monitor your sleep? Pebble can send data from the accelerometer and buttons back up to the internet. Pebble can receive simple alerts and notifications from if this then that (ifttt.com) or our web-facing RESTful endpoint. More adventurous developers can use the Pebble SDK, with its Arduino-like abstractions and simple C structure, to gain full control of the watch. Multiple apps can run on Pebble, along side watchfaces and regular notifications. Load apps ... Continue reading →
