Snow art
Gorgeous snow art in Seattle via Wooster Collective.
Month: December 2008
BUGvonHippel – New BugLabs module
The sensor module for BugBases is out! – The BUGvonHippel. BUGvonHippel is a breakout board module which includes a female USB 2.0 port… BUGvonHippel - We’ve talked about it before, but it’s finally here! Named after Prof. Eric von Hippel at MIT who inspired it’s creation, the BUGvonHippel further enables developers to create new and […]
Star Wars nativity in LEGO
Star Wars maven Bonnie Burton interviewed Larry Lars, the creator of this wonderful Star Wars LEGO nativity .
MAKE – always welcome
Nobody was sure what exactly had happened to Christopher Robin after he’d left the Hundred Acre Wood, but they were thrilled with his gift certificates to the Maker Shed and the MAKE and CRAFT magazine subscriptions. Your friends will be thrilled, too! There’s still time to give gift subscriptions and Maker Shed gift certificates! Don’t […]
Super Electrofluorescent Profanity Machine
Super Electrofluorescent Profanity Machine via Giz. The Super Electrofluorescent Profanity Machine, or Four Letter Word (for short), is a bit of electronics cobbled together out of vintage Cold War-era Soviet vacuum fluorescent tubes and custom driver circuitry. It was designed and built by me. The device does two things: the first (mundane but utilitarian) thing […]
Basic Stamp supercomputer
The Parallax forum has an interesting supercomputer project based on 11 Parallax Basic Stamp micro-controllers. This might not be a supercomputer based on Wikipedia’s definition, but it’s still an amazing accomplishment. This is the World’s First talking Basic Stamp Hobby Supercomputer!!! (and the World’s 1st Supercomputer built from hobby microcontrollers) It communicates by English and […]
MPGuino: Open source instrumentation
This is a great open source MPG instrument for your car. It’s based on the Arduino micro-controller along with a few other sensors. I really like all these open-source projects that are springing up all over the place. Amazing! MPGuino is part of the OpenGauge instrumentation effort, which was created to make available efficiency instrumentation […]