How to Develop a Sellable Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) Product
Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) is a great bluetooth solution for your electronics product even if energy use isn’t a factor.
Maker Spotlight: Rachel Koukal
Rachel Koukal has dabbled in many hobbies, but these days she’s focusing on creating inspired 3D designs for jewelry and accessories.
This Week in Making: Water Bikes, Paper Chess, and Flying Cars
This past week we contemplated riding our bikes on water, marveled at a paper quilled chess set, and got amped thinking about flying cars.
Weekend Watch: B2Builds Dives into Electronics and Woodworking
Woodworking and electronics, automatons and camera sliders. Ben Brandt’s YouTube channel offers lots of cool projects.
MESH
MESH is a new series of thumb-sized blocks, each of which has a single function: Turn on a light; Detect shaking; Detect the ambient light level. MESH blocks communicate over bluetooth with each other, your phone, or IoT devices like the Phillips Smart Lighting system. Rather than programming them normally, you set which blocks should […]
Onion Omega
The Onion Omega is a modular microcomputer. You snap together the chip, a “dock”, and as many expansion boards as you need to provide extra functions. You could make an Omega that works like popular single board computers by mounting the chip on an “expansion dock” that adds the inputs and outputs to connect it […]
How to Hack a Talking Chewbacca Mask
John Park replaces the fixed audio chip on his Chewie mask with a programmable one. Hilarity ensues.
