Spark Fun has a new series of tutorials, here’s the first, beginning embedded electronics – This is a series of lectures written for those with mild electronics background (aka Sophomore in Electrical and Computer Engineering) to learn about the wild world of Embedded Electronics. I assume only that you know what electricity is and that […]
Gina at Lifehacker posted a really nice rundown of what goes into making a Firefox extension: The meat of a Firefox extension is simply Javascript – the not-very-mysterious stuff of bookmarklets and regular old web pages – and a markup language called XUL (pronounced “zool.”) To build your own, you’ll need some Javascript know-how, comfort […]
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 […]
