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Critter board reference released

Critter board reference released

Critter and Guitari have released their boards… …We are releasing all PCB schematic and layout files, including Gerber files for everything in the Critter Boards category. All designs are done in Cadsoft’s Eagle layout program — a free version of this program is available. This good news comes with some bad. For a variety of […]

Accelerometer Mouse

Accelerometer Mouse

David writes: Bernard shows us how to use an use an accelerometer as a mouse. This project uses a MEMS X/Y accelerometer, a PIC microcontroller and a old mouse. He also describes a trick for powering the new mouse with the unused RS232 serial control lines. This is a great idea. My optical mouse is […]

FlockBots

FlockBots

FlockBots, created back in 2005, were the product of the Evolutionary Computation Laboratory at George Mason University. The concept was to create an open-hardware reference platform for small, sub $800 robots that could be used in education and swarm research. I was noticing this afternoon that the project’s wiki doesn’t seem like it’s been updated […]