Our pals @ Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories are doing some fun classes at the TechShop (Bay Area) starting this weekend… – Coming up real soon now: Three microcontroller-oriented classes, on Saturday afternoons at TechShop, at different levels of skill and with different emphases: Sat. June 9, 1:00 PM: Make a Micro Readerboard Sat. June 16, […]
Sam writes – Check this out, if you hadn’t heard of it already – “Manhattan Style” circuit building technique. I found it off of opencircuits.com. You have to scroll down a bit to get to the pictures, but the circuits are really beautiful. It really makes me want to consider aesthetics a little more the […]
Squeak is open source version of Smalltalk and looks like a fun way to make games, edu apps and more… – Squeak is a modern, open source full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is highly-portable – even its virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk making it easy to debug, […]
Here’s a fun comparison on Gizmodo of Palm’s new Foleo (a smartphone “companion”) and a DIY version from MAKE, a Palm Pilot Notebook! – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Palm Pilot Notebook. Modified hardback book contains extra-powered PDA and travel keyboard. MAKE 07 – Page 138. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition […]
Here’s a neat hack for folks who have the Digg button (beginner electronics kit that mimics the Digg site, I worked on the kit)… Bobber writes – The Digg Button from adafruit industries www.adafruit.com is a very simple DIY electronics kit suitable for beginners. It consists of a microprocessor, a 3-digit display, a button and […]
Super simple and fun – Got an old soldering iron, turn it into a pen! – [via] Link.
Another cat project today… J.Perthold made a camera that takes pictures automatically… from a cat! – Sometimes I have some challenging ideas, or crazy like some other people would say. This time I thought about our cat who is the whole day out, returning sometimes hungry sometimes not, sometimes with traces of fights, sometimes he […]
