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BLE Shields in the Maker Shed: One-Tap Wireless Between Arduino and Cell Phones

BLE Shields in the Maker Shed: One-Tap Wireless Between Arduino and Cell Phones

Maker Shed is now carrying RedBearLab’s Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Shield. It’s an inexpensive, simple, and fun way to get Arduino talking to an iPhone, iPad, or even some Macs… and probably a few Android devices as well. True to its name, BLE is low power, and it’s also easy. Check out the walkthrough in the second half of this post: with a few clicks (or taps) I got my iPad and Arduino talking the universal language of blinkenlights!

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Minecraft Augmented Reality App

Minecraft Augmented Reality App

Can’t get enough of Minecraft? Wish you could bring your creations with you wherever you go and interact with them in the real world? Now you can with the Minecraft Reality app by Mojang. That’s right–get chunky 8-bit style graphics rendered in hardware accelerated real-time 3D and mapped over your smartphone’s field of view to […]

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Cyber Monday at O’Reilly

Cyber Monday at O’Reilly

If you recently acquired an ebook reader, tablet, or smartphone and are looking to expand your technical library with quality ebook and video titles, then you’ll be happy to know that today you can save 50% on all ebooks and videos from oreilly.com. That means that copy of Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Arduino Cookbook, Getting […]

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3D-Printed iPhone Sweater Case

Check out this cool Janne Kyttanen-inspired 3D-printed iPhone sweater case from Shapeways’ Design for iPhone 5 Contest winner ArtizanWork. It’s a prime example of the sort of object that can only be produced with a 3D printer. The unibody construction with both hard and soft surface attributes combined with a novel presentation ultimately won over the judges.

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