After so many years of successively bigger, faster, hotter, less reliable, power hungry computer hardware, I’m really tickled to see that a lot of manufacturers are testing the waters with something altogether different. There’s the OLPC, the Asus EeePC, and now the Aleutia E1, a little mini desktop that sips 8 watts and is packaged […]
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe In this Weekend Projects podcast I’ll walk you through the different parts of the hardware on the reprap. You’ll want to take a look at the pdf for parts lists and more detailed info to get started on the hardware for this project. The […]
A really useful page explaining how LED string lights work and how to repair them.
This is an implementation and expansion of the ‘Net Meter Data’ project from Tom Igoe. The original project can be found in ‘Making Things Talk’ and MAKE 11, nice work LeLand! – Link.
Jon sent in this nice oscilloscope clock that uses a four-tube oscilloscope with PIC and DAC for clock vectors – Link. Related: Oscilloscope clock – Link. Oscilloscope alarm clock project… – Link. $35 AVR Oscilloscope clock kit – Link. AVR Oscilloscope clock – Link.
One of my favorite makers, Waldemeyer, made an AMAZING set of LED jackets for the band OK Go – Link & gallery to more of his stuff.
If you like coffee and a little cryptanalysis in the morning, here’s a really interesting hack-in-progress: figuring out the coding used to program beverages in the Tassimo coffee machine. Chris R. Chapman writes: I’ve been working on reverse-engineering the Braun Tassimo T1200/T1400 hot beverage system from its barcoded T-DISC brewing pods. The barcodes are used […]
