DIY Smart Phone Mittens
You wouldn’t be long getting frostbit digits trying to text without these smart phone mittens from Becky Stern over at adafruit!
Computers & Mobile
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What’s New: ‘Getting Started with Arduino’ third edition
Three questions for Michael Shiloh, co-author with Massimo Banzi of the new edition of Getting Started with Arduino, available at O’Reilly, Adafruit, and Amazon. What new additions will readers find in this third edition of Getting Started with Arduino? Michael Shiloh: The third edition of Getting Started with Arduino adds two new chapters. The first, “The Automatic Garden […]
Small But Mighty: Meet Adafruit Trinket
Note: This excerpt is adapted from author Mike Barela’s new Make: Book, Getting Started with Adafruit Trinket. The Arduino has revolutionized the use of microcontrollers—programmable electronics—in the last several years. This can be attributed to easy to use hardware and software at a reasonable price point. The often-cited Internet of Things has grown from the ubiquity […]
21st Century Robot: The Manifesto
Note: This is an excerpt of Brian David Johnson’s new book, 21st Century Robot, an audacious experiment in storytelling that weaves sci-fi stories into a real-life nonfiction narrative featuring several worldwide adventures, a serious dose of 3D printing, plenty of open source technology, the efforts of a first grade class, and a socially precocious robot […]
Punch Card Interface Now on Twitter
Ever want to go back to the “good old” days of computing, when all coding was done on punch-cards? OK, maybe you don’t, but it’s always fun to combine old technology with new concepts, like this interface that let’s you tweet via punch cards. The first step in making this clever retro-computing experiment was how […]
Cypress Announces PSoC 4 BLE
You may not immediately recognize the name Cypress, however the chances are very good that you’re familiar with their products in one form or another. The items that their PSoC has been used in is simply too long to list — from Sonicare toothbrushes, to Adidas shoes, and even the touch screen in the Tesla […]
From The Gift Guide: Tremendous Tools And Tech
Makers need tools. Its simple, we can’t make stuff without the proper tools. Maybe that tool is a screwdriver, maybe it is a scanner, maybe it is just storage for the parts of our projects. We have to have them or nothing will get done! The Tools & Tech section of our Ultimate Makers Gift […]