The Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology is developing ROILA, a spoken language designed to be easily understandable by robots. The number of robots in our society is increasing rapidly. The number of service robots that interact with everyday people already outnumbers industrial robots. The easiest way to communicate with these service robots, such as Roomba […]
Brian Dwyer built this nifty 2-axis light follower using the infrared camera from a Wiimote, a couple of servos, and an Arduino.
The Nexus One sports the same Broadcom chipset as the HTC Desire, which has FM radio support, though Google has yet to enable this feature on the handset. Luckily the Nexus One is pretty open, so naturally somebody like intersectRaven from xda-developers came along and released a kernel with FM support baked right in. You’ll have to install a custom ROM, but at least it’s possible.
Today is a big day for anyone who designs (or builds) open source hardware. For about 5+ years or so the term “open source hardware” has been used more and more to generally describe projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, […]
In the heart of San Francisco’s artistic Mission District is Levi’s Workshop a new kind of hands-on gallery that is celebrating the history of print and design from now through the end of August. I was amazed when I stepped inside how open the space was and how readily available the staff were to show […]
Inspired by the project of the same name in the Geek Dad book, Paul and his family decided to make the ultimate Slip ‘n Slide. They encountered a few snags along the way, but were satisfied with the results: Overall, it was a nice DIY project that turned out to be a very impressive slide. […]
This weekend’s Hackers on Planet Earth convention in New York City will include hams transmitting under the special event call-sign N2H, and anyone who makes contact gets a cool QSL card. I emailed organizer bernieS and got the scoop: Amateur Radio station N2H at HOPE – call-in frequencies: 146.550MHz 2Meter band 446.050MHz 70cm band 28.370MHz […]
