Bored Beagle/BeagleBoard
We made this is in response to a quip by MAKE founder Dale Dougherty, when he saw Marketing Coordinator Meg Mason’s beagle, Bella, looking… well, bored.
Technology
New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Mini R05
Arduino recently updated their small form-factor Arduino Mini and it’s now shipping from the Maker Shed. The Arduino Mini R05 is based on the same ATmega 328 processor as the Arduino Uno, but measures a scant 1.25″x0.73″ making it perfect for breadboards and embedded applications.
Buy Electronic Kits, Help HackerMoms
Chris “Akiba” Wang of Freaklabs and Tokyo Hackerspace is the brother of Mothership HackerMoms co-founder Sho Sho Smith, and he’s offering a couple of cool kits from his online store to support HackerMoms’ Kickstarter campaign. All proceeds will go to the moms! The first kit is the FabTile, a daisy-chainable LED board based off of […]
Peek Inside the Microsoft Surface Tablet
The folks over at iFixit go the extra mile to bring you the Microsoft Surface Tablet Teardown. Not your average piece of hardware, the Microsoft Surface is a slim entry into the already bloated tablet market–though a release that was eagerly anticipated and met with great enthusiasm. Getting inside the svelte confines of Surface enclosure proved to be and arduous task deftly performed by iFixIt’s crack team of teardown experts.
Weekend Projects – PIR Sensor Arduino Alarm
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at
http://makeprojects.com/Project/PIR+Sensor+Arduino+Alarm/72/1
This project is great for those beginning to build with Arduino, and requires no soldering. Using very few components, and some jumper wire, we’ll build a simple motion-sensing alarm. This project combines technologies we’ve used in previous Weekend Projects, including a PIR sensor and piezo buzzer. It’s great for practical jokes and doubles as an early warning system for the zombie invasion!
Pumpktris, Tetris-in-a-Pumpkin
Pumpktris is a Tetris game enclosed in October’s most celebrated squash, the pumpkin. My favorite part? The stem is the game’s joystick.
15 Fantastic Project Enclosures
You spent weeks, even months, developing your circuit. Doodling. Drafting. Breadboarding. Perfboarding. Designing and etching that PCB. Your work deserves an outside worthy of all that hard work you put inside. If you’re looking for ideas, you need look no further. Something here is certain to inspire.