Boost Your BeagleBone Black with Breakout Board
Making a PCB is easier than you might expect.
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Papercraft Pixel Workshop
Artist Aram Bartholl noticed that kids didn’t seem to understand the “retro-pixel-look,” so he held a delightful workshop at his son’s school, in which they made pixelated models of images from video games.
Ultrasonic Train Detector in Stockholm Subway
Raspberry Pi powers a hair-raising billboard in a Stockholm subway.
10 Questions for Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton
“I think one of the reasons we’ve been successful is we’ve had this commitment to not be a magpie and run off after some shiny new thing after six months.” As part of our celebration of Raspberry Pi’s second birthday, I interviewed Eben Upton, founder and former trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Talking to the Raspberry Pi with an FTDI Breakout Board
There are many ways of logging in to your Raspberry Pi without a monitor or keyboard. A convenient trick is to connect through the serial monitor that is listening on two of the GPIO header pins.
Intel Galileo Available in the Maker Shed (Quantities Limited)
The Maker Shed has just received a limited quantity of Intel’s X86 based microcontroller, the Galileo. Designed in collaboration with the Arduino team, the Galileo is compatible with Arduino sketches and R3 compatible shields. Get yours now before they’re gone!
The Internet of Things: Why Does it Matter?
This is the final installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things with Atmel’s Tom Vu and Internet of Things Council member Michael Koster. Today’s topic: Why the Internet of Things matters.
