Learning Arduino, programming, electronics? Here’s a MASSIVE tutorial on serial library and binary data with Arduinos – Ladyada is on a roll… Ah, Arduino, I remember when you were just crawling around and blinking LEDs. Now you’re ready to learn how to speak! In this lesson we’ll learn how to use the Serial Library to […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rosendahl writes – I just finished this yesterday. Based on an original design that I built in college, this is an LED lightshow that plugs into any audio source. (I have it on top of our home entertainment system, so it shows whatever we’re listening to or watching.) The display […]
The “Vanity Ring” project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which uploads the amount of mentions their name gets on a Google search onto the ring. From the description: “While in earlier times richness and importance were equal to the amount of money […]
Socratic electronics has a lot of downloadable worksheets if you’re learning (or want to learn) electronics, they take a different approach than traditional teaching… – The purpose of this website is to provide both rationale and resources for research/discussion-based instruction to instructors everywhere. Central to the Socratic Electronics project is a large collection of questions […]
A working TIFF buffer overflow exploit was finally released for the iPhone 1.1.1 firware and the iPod Touch! This is huge for iPod Touch fans, as it means we can finally install other apps on the device. Like before, it’ll probably be a few days before there is a user-friendly tool, but if you don’t […]
Here’s a clever work around if you have a hacked iPhone or an iPod Touch — use another phone (Windows Mobile) as a bridge to get some 3G action… Thanks Martin! Link.
Shawn writes – Saw the TV Retro casemod… I made something similar and built a PC and monitor right into it. Retro stereo mod for a media center PC – Link.
