The myriad incarnations of the Arduino are really a testament to the effectiveness of platform standards that are designed around an open hardware, open source model. The Tinkerlog provides us with another example of this with an alternative take on the “breadboardable” Arduino: A couple of month ago I ordered my first Arduino board. It […]
Dave Fowler of uC Hobby continues his series on Arduino sound generation with an article on DAC (Digital-to-Analog) output options. Arduino Audio DAC Options – Link Related: Making Arduino sing, Part Three: Playing a melody – Link Making Arduino sing, Part Two – Link Making Arduino sing – Link
Some new GPS action over @ SparkFun – It’s not quite small enough to track your cat, but the Uber Tracker is a beast of a product. This device may seem simple enough: get GPS coordinates and broadcast those coordinates over the cellular network – but it’s so much more! The Uber Tracker has open […]
Interesting touch-sensitive mixers with a LED matrix under the faders, Soundwidgets writes – The Stribe’s original name was “xenome” – a nod to Brian Crabtree’s amazing monome 40h project, which inspired me to build the first Stribe in the summer of ’07. For many years, I’d been thinking about and experimenting with alternative interfaces, but […]
ChrisP writes – This started as a project about 2 and a half years ago when I started drag racing motorcycles with a friend who has a bike shop. The original project started as how to make things more efficient, easier on the motorcycle and of course more constistant. Of the bikes we race the […]
A lot of our makers send in camping gear and equipment, while they’re not “MAKEs” there seems to be a lot of makers who camp – so when I saw this wearable sleeping bag I couldn’t help but put it on the blog, it’s awesome! – [via] Link.
iPhone hacker extraordinaire Erica Sadun made an application for the iPhone that will listen to music and identify it! She writes – Download a copy of the Listen beta. It’s still *very* beta. Install it on your iPhone, get near music and run it. It will sample the music for 5 seconds and then attempt […]
