How-To: Design Arduino Shields in Eagle
The site Open Electronics recently posted a step-by-step guide to using the EAGLE PCB design software to make your own custom Arduino Shields.
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Illuminate Yourself and Your Way with DIY LED Bike Handlebars
Inspired by Mitchell Silva’s Globars, our friend Becky at Adafruit created a DIY version of his illuminated bicycle handlebars.
Using USB Foot Pedals With a Standing Desk
NYC Resistor’s Trammell Hudson is using Midi effects pedals to create keyboard events like cutting and pasting. I’ve recently switched to a standing desk from Geek Desk and wanted to be able to free my hands for more important things, like drinking coffee. The foot pedals are a cast off Behringer FCB1010 MIDI foot controller, […]
Raspbian Released
Raspberry Pi owners will likely be delighted to hear that they just got a big update to the default Linux installation for their boards. This new distribution of Linux, called Raspbian, is a port of Debian that takes better advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s hardware.
How-To: Embed an RFID Card in an iPhone
Based on this recent work from Londonite Dhani Sutanto, Becky over at Adafruit just posted this cool tutorial on how to install the antenna and chip from an RFID passcard, such as the MBTA’s CharlieCard transit pass, inside your iPhone.
EMSL’s Simple Relay Shield
There’s so much to love about this project! Lenore and Windell crush it again. The Evil Mad Scientist Simple Relay Shield is an Arduino add-on that lets you use your Arduino (or shield-compatible clone, such as the Diavolino) to control a single electromechanical relay, for switching loads of up to 24 V DC or 40 […]
Use Your Mac Laptop as a Wireless Proxy for Raspberry Pi
I got my Raspberry Pi this week, and I have to say that despite the wait (or maybe because of it), the whole user experience of getting this running was exciting. I was reminded of when my Dad brought home our first “Fat Mac” in 1985 (Fat because it had 512k of RAM). Actually, this […]