In addition to some great new features on the electronics part searchin’ Octopart (PDF, project saving, sharing and more) – they’ve started posting hardware stories – check’em out… Like many particle physics experiments, ATLAS is a collection of several concentric cylinders, each cylinder being a different detector technology. At the center of all the cylinders […]
I really like Biocurious a “weblog about biology (and physics, grad school, and miscellenaeous other things!) through the eyes of physicists.” – [via] Link & Molecule of the Month!
Lots of new stuff in the Maker store (and a special congrats to Rob!) – Here’s a fun little open source soldering kit that provides an introduction to the capabilities of microcontrollers. The readerboard spells out preprogrammed messages such as “MAKE” one letter at a time on its alphanumeric LED display. The LED Micro-Readerboard, designed […]
If you’re in NYC here’s a great Arduino workshop! NIME 2007 – Arduino Workshop @ The Interactive Telecommunications Program Sunday, June 10th 11AM-4PM NIME 2007, in association with the Interactive Telecommunications Program, announces a special workshop session on the open-source Arduino hardware development environment. The workshop will be held by ITP Assistant Arts Professor Tom […]
Steve writes – …[Here’s a] video clip of my CNC Taig mill setup as a surface mount Pick and Place machine. It’s slow, but it’s more fun watching it do the work then it is to do it by hand! Notice how it picks up the parts in one orientation, and then rotates them to […]
This is nice – Google maps + the GPS feed from buses in Helsinki, Finland – [via] Link.
Regine has a write up about this neat robot that sweats when you caress it – Alexithymia is a term that means the incapacity to verbalize emotions. When some sufferers want to talk but are unable to utter the words, they start sweating to manifest the desire to communicate. Alexitimia is also the name that […]
