I posted a piece on Street Tech about BEAM builder Harold Ilano’s latest creation, a single-chip (74AC240) photovore made from some Playstation parts and a cell phone battery. Mercury, Robot Seeker of Light (Detector of Dark) – Link
Here’s a video Link (mp4) of Hektor the spray-painting robot! – Link.
Last week there was an update to iTunes (7.4) – this allowed you to make your own ringtones by simply renaming your files with a .m4r extension. Within a day Apple released 7.4.1, the update killed that, but now you just need to rename them back to m4a. This reminds me of when Sony tried […]
The AVR is a a popular microcontroller in maker-land, here’s a video on where it came from… – What on earth is AVR? How did it become one of the biggest successes in the industry? And what does AVR really stand for? Watch this special to become enlightened, meet the AVR inventors and Atmel Norway […]
Here’s how to auto reset the older Arduino NG’s (just like the new Diecimila) – If you have an Arduino NG and you’re envious of all the seconds saved by those Diecimila owners who don’t have to press the reset button anymore, this page is for you. You can upgrade an Arduino NG to take […]
Man, no one breaks it down about scopes’ better than bunnie… – The Youscope demo is a hard act to follow up on, but I’ve had this scope screenshot for a while now and I thought it was so neat that I wanted to talk about it a bit on the blog. Before I dive […]
David sent us an easy upgrade for the Bare Bones Arduino that will give it a couple cool features released with the new Diecimila Arduino, namely the ability to auto-reset after a code upload and a firmware update that will get the board running in 2 seconds instead of 10. With help from Paul Badger […]
