Mark writes in with another Arduino project! It’s Arduino Tuesday! – Rather than driving a video display, I took the Arduino in the opposite direction, driving the SparkFun RGB LED Matrix Backpack. This is paired with a Python program (running on a rather more powerful computer) which is downsampling video files and sending them to […]
Flemming writes – There has been some stirring lately about using Gold Phoenix for hobby projects, all kicked off by a blog entry by Julian Bleeker, so as my favorite board house was on holiday I tried this newfangled Chinese outsourcing and compared it to Olimex. Gold Phoenix vs. Olimex – Link. For folks who […]
Josh Simon’s over at the Sun blog(s) has a great set of photos from a supercomputer in an chapel! With my supercomputer-as-art background from Thinking Machines, I’m perhaps pre-disposed to appreciate nicely done computers and computer installations. I was blown away when I saw the photos below of MareNostrum, currently the 9th largest supercomputer in […]
Here’s another homemade self-balancong scooter! Malcolm writes – In recent times, advanced electronic systems have become cheaper and cheaper and at the same time become more complex. The price of the components are now within reach of the hobbyist (e.g. Gyro and Accelerometer). This allows more complex systems to be built at relatively low cost. […]
Brian writes in – Most musicians who have tried to make money performing and selling CDs know how hard it can be to get people to take a chance and purchase music from smaller, independent artists. My band, The Highway Beautiful, saw a need to have potential customers listen to our CD before they purchased […]
Collin writes – Because I know there just aren’t enough Arduino projects, I thought I’d tell you about my stab at an Arduino Synthesizer. It’s currently monophonic with pitch control and a simple hardware low pass filter. I’m working on adding MIDI-in and hopefully vibrato in the future. Thanks for the inspiration, Make! Narbotic » […]
The first version of a native AIM client for the iPhone was released today under the GPL2 license! It’s based on the libFiretalk IM library, and it currently provides basic chat functionality. This snippet from their project page is interesting, though: The overall direction of the project is to get libPurple compiled for the iPhone […]
