DIY graphing calculator made with Beagleboard
Sick of being harassed just for trying to extend the functionality of your graphing calculator?
Other Boards
Development boards are perfect for empowering makers to easily get up and running on their projects, as they provide all the necessary tools and resources needed for quickly getting started with any given task. For those new to the maker world or experienced developers wanting an update on all that’s available out there right now, we have created this blog post collection in order to highlight amazing development boards with tips, tricks, and tutorials.
Open Source Hardware track at OSCON in Portland, OR
OSCON this year will be a delight for anybody interested in working with hardware. A full open source hardware track offers a range of talks to get you started with hardware hacking, and gives a great insight into the current options for prototyping.
The worlds only working pallophotophone
A while back Schenectady Museum curator Chris Hunter came across some old pallophotophone recordings from radio station WGY. “What’s a pallophotophone?”, you might ask. Also known as the RCA Photophone, it’s an early recording device developed by GE researcher Charles Hoxie. GE Engineer Russ DeMuth, recreates a pallophotophone from Hoxie’s original design and manages to extract some rather interesting recordings.
Weekend Project: The Arc Light
Build an amazing 19th century arc light out of simple materials. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. To download The Arc Light video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Arc Light article in MAKE, Volume 20 and you can see that in our Digital […]
Weekend Project: The Arc Light (PDF)
Build an amazing 19th century arc light out of simple materials. Thanks go to William Gurstelle for the original article in MAKE, Volume 20. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
Adding VGA output to a Beagleboard
Interested in playing with the open-source Beagleboard, but don’t have a DVI-capable monitor to use it with?
BeagleBot – a Beagle Board robotics project
Congratulations to Antti Seppänen, whose Beagle Board-based robot is the winner of the first Beagle Board design contest. What’s more, Antti also created a very cool expansion board for the Beagle Board, and made the design available under a CC license: My Beagle bot required building an expansion board. Some requirements for expansion board: Wide […]