Gil Zamfirescu sends along this announcement for the excellent Workshop Weekend, happening this weekend in Oakland, CA: Explore 3D modeling, build a mini robot, create your own jewelry, make ricotta cheese, learn to sew by machine, and discover DNA modeling — all in one weekend! Workshop Weekend, the festival of learning offering more than 40 […]
hardhack will have a tent at Toorcamp this year! we’ve been on pause for a few years, and we’re back. Toorcamp will be a fun camping hacker event in a beautiful coastal location about a four hour drive from Seattle, Washington. do you have a hardware project you would like to workshop-ize? entry to Toorcamp […]
Michael Mitchel recently shared his tutorial on how to use DFU Programmer to update the firmware on the Atmega8U2, which, according to the Arduino documentation, “acts as a bridge between the computer’s USB port and the main processor’s serial port” on the Uno.
Yes, those are my veins. This series of images was generated by the Christie DLP VeinViewer [PDF]. This device projects infrared light onto your hand. A camera detects areas with blood vessels near the skin because blood doesn’t reflect the IR light, but the surrounding tissue does. The resulting image is projected onto my hand by […]
Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that’s inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine — from toys to satellite gear. Because, as he says, “You don’t need anyone’s permission to make something great.”
As more and more of us move to laptops and all-in-one desktop machines, one of the things we lose is the ability to easily upgrade and repair our computers. Ever tried to replace a graphics card on a laptop or troubleshoot a problem on an all-in-one with a display the size of living room TV? […]
Check out the schedule for this summer’s Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) hacker conference, of which this is the 9th. The talks include everything from Open Source Hardware to Advanced Handcuff Hacking to the legendary Social Engineering panel. I wish I was going!
