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A couple days ago I printed Yoda on my 3d Printer – http://instagram.com/p/U2HR__StrH/ Yesterday I put him on a remote controlled micro robotic platform, watch video of it in action here: And today I made him speak. The basics setup is this : Arduino Uno. MicroSD card reader (4$ at DX.com ). MicroSD card […]
Login with AJAX – including PhoneGap apps Oh God. For a few weeks I was researching what is a good way to login to a Laravel web app via AJAX and it turns out I was over-preparing for some problems that after all weren't even there. Example – you made a web app in Laravel […]
Two weeks ago I bought a 3D printer called PrintrBot Plus. I never had a 3D printer before. This technology is completely mind blowing to me. Fast forward, I made quite a bit of adjustments and upgrades. Here are the mods I have done to my PrintrBot Plus 3D printer: Replaced the tip with 0.35mm tip […]
A short essay by Maks Surguy, technology enthusiast. Since my childhood I was really into technology. I built my own FM transmitters, robots, RC airplanes and other toys. I have been getting into 3D printing lately and this past month made me realize that there is basically no limit to technology and business opportunities that arise […]
A couple months ago I was playing with my Arduino Uno and I was wondering, what is the smallest Arduino that I could find these days? So fast forward, I am holding Femtoduino, smallest Arduino that I was able to find without braking my budget. What is Femtoduino? It is VERY small Arduino compatible board […]
This week I was playing with one of my toys – Syma S107G R/C Helicopter and a 808 Car Key Chain Spy Camera Recorder 720*480 and I put together a small video that shows how much fun it could be, check it out below: The whole setup could be purchased for 25$ if you shop around! […]
For those of you who haven’t been following this blog – I am posting a short series of tutorials that guide you through creating a simple API in Laravel 3 and integrating it with a client application – in this case TodoMVC BackboneJS application (see screenshot below). Part 1 of the tutorial is here : https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/building-restful-api-in-laravel-start-here/ […]
In the previous tutorial (https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/building-restful-api-in-laravel-start-here/) I shared the basics of RESTful controller structure and a route that we will need to build a RESTful web application. As promised, in this tutorial we will explore how exactly to make our API work with our data. We will explore a simple Todo list application as and example. […]
Bootsnipp is now in top 70,000 websites worldwide according to Alexa ratings (third month of Bootsnipp’s existence) : I can’t disclose all analytics but I’d like to share how I manage to run Bootsnipp, even when there is a huge load. Bootsnipp isn’t very demanding PHP application built with Laravel PHP framework but basically all of […]