Technology

HOWTO: Make a roll-up keyboard

Making a flexible, “roll-up” keyboard from a standard USB keyboard is a lot easier than I would have expected. Rolling your own is about as simple as removing the membrane from inside an existing keyboard and gluing key labels in the appropriate places. Aside from having a portable full-size keyboard, and the additional geek-cred that […]

PIC USB color changing light

Ian at DIY Life made a nice tutorial video on RGB color mixing with LEDs on the PIC platform. His circuit throws in a handful of extras, like mic input. While perhaps simpler to do on the Arduino with a BlinkM, this project looks like a good PIC starter. His whiteboard circuit diagram drawing lapse […]