REMINDER: RoboGames Fri-Sun, June 15-17! If you’re in the Bay Area, don’t miss this and get tickets! Holy Heck, The International RoboGames is coming up and this year it’s going to be a doozy! At Maker Faire you saw a tiny segment of what’s going to go on at Fort Mason Center in two weeks: […]
Paul modded a Juicebox into a Retro-phone for pictureframe / MP3 playback – Link. More: $20 Juicebox photo frame – Link. Run Linux on a JuiceBox – Link. HOW TO – Make a juice box pinhole camera – Link. Juicebox picture frame – Link. Juicebox Hacking – Link.
Lancandy writes – Want super clean holes in your latest PCB? Want your PCB drill-bit’s to last much longer? Tired of using your dremel as the drill press it clearly isn’t? For around $30, you can build this simple PCB drill-press. $30 High-Speed PCB Drill Press – Link.
Todbot (author of Roomba Hacking) has a review of the iRobot Create Robot, he writes – At the 2007 CES iRobot announced a robot explicitly designed for hobbyist and educational robotics experimenters called the iRobot Create. The iRobot Create is now shipping and iRobot kindly sent me one to review and verify it’s applicability to […]
Using Google’s Spreadsheet API, you can create a simple CMS for your website extremely easily. It’s as simple as making a new sheet with key/value pairs for any fields you want dynamically populated. You can then access the data from javascript via the JSON API. Any updates to the spreadsheet will be immediately reflected in […]
Windell writes – MAKEKits wrote up an article on Instructables about assembling and reprogramming our little LED Micro-Readerboards. They suggest assembling the project with a socket so that you can take the microcontroller off and reprogram it in an external programmer. Another way to build it with a socket is how we’re demonstrating here, in […]
David @ uCHobby writes in – Here’s how to build a simple TTL to RS232 adaptor for your microcontroller projects. You should be able to scrounge all the parts you need or buy them at your local Radio Shack. In this article I explain how the adaptor works and provide many links to more information […]
