The Alchemist created a great Java-powered pumpkin project: The Cluster team is legendary on the MPK Campus for throwing the best Halloween parties [photos]! One of the featured activities is the Pumpkin Carving Contest. This popular event provides the staff with a fun and frivolous outlet for their creative skills. My prize-winning entry last year […]
On uC Hobby, they’re beginning a series on bringing sound to Arduino: This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I […]
Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music Writes: We’ve completed the Circuit Bending Challenge, a collaboration between CDM and GetLoFi. In just one day, people whipped up wild and crazy circuit-bent creations, from zombie Jesus to gun zapper things, playing guitars and keyboards, an infant performing circuit-bent music (really), the requisite bent Furby, and more. Full […]
Chris Anderson came up with a kid-hackable UAV, the GeoCrawler 2, using an RC aircraft and a Lego NXT: Features: In GPS mode, unlimited pre-programmed waypoints, with programmable options such as circle and hold. Ability to integrate other sensors, such as ultrasonic, compass, gyros, accelerometers, or barometric pressure (altitude). With optional bluetooth cellphone integration, control […]
I use the standard Radio Shack “helping hands” tool a lot when I’m working on electronics. It’s pretty useful for holding components in the right place while you’re soldering or working with small parts. They can be a bit of a pain, though, because the little alligator clips tend to move around, causing components or […]
On Tinkerlog, Alexander Weber has a short tutorial on the software toolchain and hardware (a USB programmer) required to get an AVR programming environment up and running on a Mac (in his case, the MacBook). Programming AVR with a MacBook – Link Related: Arduino AVR In System Programmer (ISP) – Link Getting started with 8 […]
Only Two Cross-Browser Web Fonts If you want to choose fonts that will look similar across most modern browsers you have two choices: Georgia and Verdana. Yeah, there are a few other fonts, such as Times, Arial, Helvetica, etc., that are available on all platforms, but they tend to look really nice on one platform […]
