If you're going to Maker Faire this weekend, be sure to check out Tyrone Stephenson, who goes by his street name Baybe Champ, and the Scraper Bikes phenomenon he started in Oakland. Nina Alter, a Boing Boing reader and fellow DIY culture enthusiast, is sponsoring his presence there and says, "He's an amazing kid doing some great work." Make has a great post about it.
Our motto is "Blue, yellow, orange wit bling, Scraper Bikes is on the scene."
These kids are so cool. If you haven't heard of any of this before, start by watching the video that started it all back in 2007.
This is what happiness and best-friends-forever friendship looks like.
It's been a year and a half since the Norwegian Consumer Council commissioned a security audit of kids' "smart watches" that revealed that anyone on the internet could track the wearers, talk to them through their watches, and listen in on them; a year later, Pen Test Partners revealed that the watches were still leaking […]
In late 2017, the Norwegian Consumer Council published its audit of kids' smart-watches, reporting that the leading brands allowed strangers to follow your kids around and listen in on their conversations; a year later, Pen Test Partners followed up to see if anything had changed (it hadn't).
Just a reminder: Print isn’t dead. And now that printers are becoming as portable as cell phones, it might be around for quite some time. Enter the MEMOBIRD Mobile Thermal Printer, a mini-printer that is versatile, portable – and most importantly, never needs a refill on ink or toner. Measuring just a few inches around, […]
What do Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google all have in common? Somewhere in their framework, they all use MySQL, that most versatile (and free!) of database management systems. And they’re not alone. If your company or the one you’d like to work for wrangles data (and who doesn’t?), they’re going to need someone with a […]
There’s a reason you’re hearing about the gig economy in every other business story these days. More than ever, people are finding income from more than one source. And if you find the right one, a side hustle can do more than just pad your pockets – it can allow you to finally get paid […]
