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If you’re interested in learning more about the Parallax Propeller, or already a die-hard Propeller head, you may want to check out the Unofficial Propeller Expo being held on June 27-28, put on by one of Parallax’s forum members, Jeff Ledger. Bring your projects to show off, tools to work on collaborative projects, or just […]
If you remember the Google SketchUp Gingerbread House Competition, you may be interested in the new Student Bridge Modeling Competition: Are you in awe of the engineering that goes into designing a bridge? Do you have a favorite local, famous, or historical bridge you’d like to see in Google Earth? Now you have a chance […]
One of the frustrating things about traveling is the obligatory pay-wireless that so many hotels and airports provide. If you check your mail at the airport and again at the hotel, it’s pretty easy to run up charges equivalent to a month’s worth of broadband, not to mention that you have to give your credit […]
Here we have an update from Pete, a hockey loving MAKE Online loving, storage professional and his experiment to freeze a hard drive in his backyard ice rink for 100 days. This one has a couple of adventures, chainsaw, time lapse photography and the video of the big moment. How would you recover Pete’s family […]
The SixthSense project from the MIT Media Lab aims to seamlessly integrate digital information with our everyday physical world. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, […]
Dale tweets: “Did not know that you should reformat flash memory cards frequently for your camera. More to do.” And points to this New York Times Gadgetwise column: Reformatting ensures that the data on the card and the file structure are clean, which will help you avoid error messages or missing images. And the longer […]
This looks pretty interesting. Just got this info from Parallax PR: The CO Gas Sensor Module is designed to allow a microcontroller to determine when a preset CO gas level has been reached or exceeded. Interfacing with the sensor module is done through a 4-pin SIP header and requires two I/O pins from the host […]
