In his presentation at the the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire last month, Tim Hunkin, an illustrator, engineer, and cartoonist, talked about the homemade amusement arcade he has built over the past 15 years and his work at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. It's a great talk. Have a look.
Hackers are chomping at the bit to tinker around under the hood of the new Lego Mindstorms microcontroller brick, the EV3, which packs an ARM9-based processor running Linux. 
This weekend, Apple’s developer site was hacked. 275,000 logins, passwords and other records potentially compromised. Two days before that, popular open-source operating system Ubuntu had its forums hacked. 1.82 million records stolen.
Are those big data breaches? Or just pin-points in the big data universe?
Explore our interactive dataviz of the World’s Biggest Data Breaches and find out.
We’ve pulled out the interesting and funny stories out of the data. Click on the bubbles to read.
Using the filter on the dataviz reveals a few interesting patterns.
If we’ve missed any big breaches, please let us know or comment underneath the viz.
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Arduino's Massimo Banzi wrote a lengthy piece on the Arduino blog describing the organization's challenges with fakes, clones, derivatives, and Kickstarter name-droppers.
So we were pretty excited to come across this fantastic project - and if you haven't yet, get ready for a whoa moment...
Recent design graduate Leo Marius has created the very first 3D-printed SLR camera! That's right, he only went and printed an entire camera (minus the lens and the film). But what got us even more excited, was when we realised that he has used sugru to ensure the entire housing is lightproof.
Wooo, sugru!
Leo has put the entire process on his Instructables guide, so those lucky enough to have access to a 3D printer can make it for themselves.The parts take around 15 hours to print, and about an hour to assemble.
This is pretty close to how we felt when we discovered that HYREL had managed to 3D print with sugru back in June.
Could this help get people using SLR cameras again? With Leo's invitation to "copy, understand, improve then share again" we reckon it's a design that will only get better and better.
Scotland Boy posted a photo:
Knitic is a project involving a custom shield for an Arduino Due; these plug into a knitting machine's solenoids and sensors, allowing Arduino control of your machine.
Here is an automaton by Dave Goodchild, made in 2005. The automaton depicts a magician performing the classic 'different items appearing from under a top hat' routine -- in this instance, a rabbit, a dove, a banana, and then finally a miniature version of the magician himself performing the trick. Very recursive! Magicians and historians should note the small red imp whispering into the conjuor's ear, a common trope in in advertising posters for magic shows in the 1800s. Bravo!
