Tom Hoffman has posted some quick and easy instructions for running Sugar (“essentially a virtual XO”) on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. If you don’t have a giant screen, check out these instructions for tips on using a lower resolution (you’ll need to do something like vi `which sugar-emulator` to edit the startup script). This might hold […]
Bumped into this while poking around YouTube. An exemplary build of a Trimet BEAMbot, as covered in my BEAM projects in MAKE Volume 06. The near-perfect symmetry of the construction (often overlooked by some builders) leads to a really smooth, consistent motion. The builder used 1000 uF caps and the FLED (Flashing LED) variant of […]
Paul McGuinness sent us a howto for installing Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC. For the most part, the install is fairly straightforward, but there are a few performance tweaks that are different from a typical desktop system. The big one is that you want to disable the access time feature (noatime parameter in fstab) […]
uC Hobby has a piece up on the use of interrupt routines in Ardunio programming: Often when working on microcontroller projects you need a background function to run at regular intervals. This is often done by setting up a hardware timer to generate an interrupt. The interrupt triggers an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) to handle […]
Nifty wall-mounted nixie tube clock posted to the MAKE Flickr Pool. Nixie Clock III – Link
I love jewelry and art objects made out of electronic components. Here are some really sweet robot charms made mainly from capacitors and resistors. 21st Century Folk-Art by oBVIoUS FRoNT – [via] Link
Rather roughshod tutorial (e.g. I think he gets his wires crossed) on adding a motion detector trigger to a paintball gun using a BASIC Stamp HomeWork board, a laser pointer and a servo. How to build motion detect to fire a paintball gun – [via] Link
