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• Thermal Printer Hacking for Craft Shows!
  Kellbot has a few cool posts on building a digital knucklebuster to accept credit cards at craft shows and not pay ridiculously high fees for a simliar bank-provided wireless setup.  Here’s the post on initial success in hacking the printer!Clipped from www.kellbot.comThermal Printer Success! Success! I’ve managed to print to the thermal pri […]
• In tech? Techcrunch says move to Chile
  Personal Globalization: A friend of mine in Germany told me about this incredible slate of incentives the Chilean government is offering tech firms that want to relocate there. The country that led the way in nationwide pension reform (for better or worse) is trying another experiment to lure tech-saavy folk down to one of the most [...] […]
• The Future of Open Source: Gadget Made for Hacking
  Apparently, Wired agrees with point #29 from my SIGINT speech.  The future will be more modular, and hackable.  The BUG was the example I gave there and Wired cited it as well!Clipped from www.wired.com Dual Perspectives Wired [...] […]
• Now you can print 3D buildings
  Digital building fabrication.  Sweet.Clipped from www.shapeways.com3D printing buildings: interview with Enrico Dini of D_Shape Enrico Dini dreamt of buildings, construction and impossible shapes. He was particularly inspired by Gaudi’s architecture and loved his fantastic(in every sense) work. He became a Civil engineer and later branched out into mak […]
• Go Hive 76!
  Philly’s new Hackerspace, Hive 76 is live and kicking.  They’re even on twitter.Clipped from www.hive76.orgProcessing and Python Wednesday nightsWednesday nights is Processing, Python, and Pizza nighs at Hive 76.  Stop by our HQ at 915 Spring Garden St. between 7 PM to 9 PM to get some pizza, hang out, and work on projects in [...] […]