Ralf writes – “You’ve been in a meeting and you thought somebody wasted your time with bla bla? There was an appointement and ten persons kept waiting for (an important) one who doesn’t care when he is frequently late? Here’s what you could enjoy meanwhile. This is inspired by this and this. Internally it uses […]
David made a spiffy function generator (second one we’ve seen in a week)… “An extremely simple and low cost Sine/Square wave generator based on the Analog Devices AD9835 Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) Generator chip. The frequency can be set for any frequency from 1Hz to 10MHz in 1Hz resolution steps! All this with three push […]
Q-Branch from GRL shows you how to make a circuit board from postal supplies and electronic parts… “How to make your own PCB on free postal labels using conductive ink, epoxy and a few parts. By PCB I mean, Post-Circuit Board: as in enter the age of circuits painted on walls. And also because its […]
Here’s a “PCB puppet” it reacts to music and is controlled via a Gameboy (circuit available on the site) – Link.
Rarely do we want to take something apart so much… Apple’s new phone, the iPhone looks great, can’t wait to poke at it… Since it uses Mac OS X the mantra at launch seems to be about build real (un-crippled) desktop level applications. Also interesting, during a slight tech issue Steve Jobs apparently talked about […]
Huh – it’s not clear the status of this project but, here’s an interesting AVR based bot you can control/program/hack on… “Tux Droid is a first generation 2.4 GHz wireless robot specially built for Linux. Tux Droid will be your favorite smart companion. Connect him to your PC and make him flap his wings, dance […]
The new version of Google SketchUp is out (version 6) and it is has some new features… “Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to […]
