This could be interesting, although establishing a new format is difficult. When I saw CDF, I thought it was the old Compound Document Format. Nonetheless, this idea would be great for O'Reilly and Make.

Sweet video on Claudio Lucero of Urban Cheesecraft and her own DIY Cheesemaking efforts at home and in the community in Portland. I like making the kinds of cheeses she's talking about -- fresh and simple to make.

Building your own tablet doesn't look easy but it's possible. An iPad clone built on a tabletop.

I'm really glad to see stories like this one from Christian Carlberg. His HexBright product is a hackable flashlight and the project got its start at Maker Faire Bay Area. He's now raised over $170,000 on Kickstarter, which is amazing.

"We are studying the social, technical -- the weirdness factor -- of me becoming a robot," said Lisa Mead, a service delivery leader at Steelcase. "How do we apply our 100 years' worth of knowing how people work effectively and expand it to now include what a person needs to operate a robot, what makes a space friendly for a robot?"

It's all part of an investment by the world's largest office furniture manufacturer to anticipate the future of telepresence -- the technology and practice of transporting your image and voice across distances -- to save companies time and money.

Friend of Make and Grand Rapids resident, Matthew Gryczan writes about Steelcase's experimentation with robotic telepresence. I particularly like the idea of hiring a robot to go somewhere I don't have to travel, but I'm not sure why that's different than Skype.