Live streaming from the Open Hardware Summit
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Month: September 2010
DIY stylophone
Australian maker Doug Jackson (he of the networkable watering system controller) built this cool-looking analog stylophone. Want to make your own? Download the schematic and PCB files (.zip) and peruse the Instructable.
Photojojo’s Ultimate Hipstamatic Guide
The Hipstamatic iPhone app quickly became a favorite of mine over the summer. I found that I was using the app to take pictures more than my regular iPhone camera. The only frustration, though, was that I had a hard time keeping up with what settings I liked to use. Between all the flash, film, […]
Open Hardware: What’s It All About? @ Linux.com
Great article! Open Hardware: What’s It All About? @ Linux.com…. Open source, open licensing, free redistribution, collaborative, and community-based development – many hands make light work. They’ve done wonders for Linux, but can these concepts apply to hardware as well as software? As reported on Linux.com in 2007, the inspiration for open hardware has been […]
Knife sharpening bicycle
Check out this cool street side knife sharpener setup. I’ve been told this used to be a common occurrence back in the first half of the twentieth century.
Repurposing old toys as bird songs
Ranjit Bhatnagar made these City Bird bird call sculptures by reverse-engineering some old children’s toys and producing new records for them on a laser cutter.
Homebrew SCARA robot arm
Axel32 of Let’s Make Robots! built this nice-looking SCARA robot arm with computer vision capability for about $40