Kitchen Handle iPad Stand
If you’ve ever walked through an IKEA before, you know that they’re filled with some of the more well-designed and inexpensive raw materials you can repurpose for your project.
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Basic Arduino Tachometer
Chris at PyroElectro built this simple Arduin-controlled IR pair that can be used to measure the RPMs of a CPU fan. A tachometer is a useful tool for counting the RPM (rotations per minute) of a wheel or basically anything that spins. The easiest way to build a tachometer is using a transmitter and receiver. […]
$49 Feature-Packed Cubieboard
Another pint-sized all-in-one ARM dev board, called the Cubieboard, has been announced. It packs a 1Ghz ARM cortex-A8 processor, OpenGL ES, 1GB ram, HDMI out, ethernet, 2 USB Host, 1 USB OTG, SATA, IR, and headers for i2c, LVDS, and more.
Baking Pi: Free Course in Basic “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Development
Bare metal programming is the practice of writing code for the CPU without an operating system (like Linux) on board. In this online course from Alex Chadwick of the University of Cambridge Computer Lab, you can learn how to use assembly code to write your own OS for the Raspberry Pi.
Adafruit’s Custom Raspberry Pi Distro Gets an Upgrade
There are some great features packed into Adafruit’s latest update to Occidentalis, their custom Raspberry Pi distro.
How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust
My computer was stolen out of the trunk of a rental car in Detroit. This is my story about how I was able to locate the computer and help the Detroit Police Department bring down a drug dealer.
Picking Resistors for LEDs
Lenore Edman from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a thorough post on picking which resistors to use with LEDs. So… you just want to light up an LED. What resistor should you use? Maybe you know the answer, or maybe everyone already assumes that you should know how to get to the answer. And in […]