The folks over at Hack a Day have gone into the electronic components biz. Teaming up with Seeed Studio, they’re producing the Bus Pirate. The Bus Pirate is a universal serial bus tool. Use it for understanding how components work before you build a full prototype. Their parts posts page shows many example uses. Here’s […]
64 synchronizing fireflies. It sounds like a line from some overly-clever children’s book or a Christmas carol. But it was instead a little week-long project for Alex at Tinkerlog. He writes: Last week, I invested some time to solder 64 Firefly boards. Only 2.432 solder joints later, I was ready for some videos. Every firefly […]
I love this video that Andres Leon did with parts he got from adafruit. Limore writes: Sometimes we wonder what folks do with the Xbees and kits we sell, and sometimes we get to see the fantastic project, like this one! Arduino-based laser controlled wireless automatic cat food dispenser. Arduino-based laser controlled wireless automatic cat […]
After adding MIDI control via Arduino + DAC, MrBook cased up the added circuitry, creating a much needed wooden back panel in the process. The upgraded kit can be seen above getting along nicely with Ableton Live – good to see the lil’ Gakken synth get the pro-style treatment. Check out his blog entry for […]
Randy shares steps for adding two key upgrades to the Mini-Theremin kit – True, there are already directions to do both of these things in the accompanying magazine, but what sets this how-to apart is that it is in English. If like me you can’t read Japanese and unlike me, you couldn’t figure out what […]
Ray Wilson of MusicFromOuterSpace gives a very in-depth review of the new Sound Lab Ultimate‘s features (skip to the 7min mark for sound samples). The Ultimate is an expanded sequel to the popular Sound Lab analog synth project, which adds a bunch of new features and makes the project fully patchable – Three Musically Accurate […]
One of the nifty little techno-trinkets Solarbotics was handing out to lucky folks at the Faire was their new NunChucky. This tiny PCB allows you to utilize the Wii Nunchunk as a project controller on a microcontroller module without having to cut the connector off the Nunchuck (so you can still use it with your […]
