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Idea: Drone Logic

A visual programming platform for mapping functionality to open-source hardware, like Arduino. Developers write ‘code blocks’ that accomplish certain tasks. These are either free or purchased through the market. Users only see the abstracted code, like legos, or Tetris. Total … Continue reading

03. February 2012 by Shlok Vaidya
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Sketchify – A Platform for Drawing

From the Wireframes blog. Sketchify is an open source toolkit for simulating simple drawings with a wide range of inputs in real time. As an example, it allows you to quickly create a functional prototype of a moving car along … Continue reading

08. June 2011 by Shlok Vaidya
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Where Word Processors Fall Short

The inability to lay out the multiple pages of one document as you would on a desk. The current generation of word processors, quite frankly, sucks at enabling this. Why? Because when storage was scarce, deleting useless stuff was an … Continue reading

02. February 2011 by Shlok Vaidya
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PCB Fabrication + Fritzing

When I was in Germany last summer, I arranged a tour of a small engineering firm that built high performance PCB’s for Porsche’s racing class vehicles. It was a great experience. This small team designed, built, and shipped these complex … Continue reading

29. January 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Review: Teleport

Fantastic free application if you need to control multiple Mac’s with one keyboard/mouse. (For example, if you don’t want to have a keyboard attached to your home theater brain.) -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

08. August 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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