Tero Karvinen, one of the authors of Sulautetut, a Finnish book about embedded prototyping, was featured on Finnish National Television along with the book. Tero was kind enough to send along a translation of the interview, which starts at around 4 minutes in to the video above.
Last year, Dave Findlay built a simple Arduino-based iPod remote to make it easy to start and stop his music while in the car.
Like making blinky light projects, but not able to pump enough performance out of those measly 8 bit instructions on your Arduino?
Nicolas Villar sent me a sample of the PepperMill, a new sensor board he and Steve Hodges designed at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. It’s a nifty little board. You attach a DC motor and the board can an output voltage when the motor is turned, and analog signals telling you the direction and speed of the motor. It turns a DC motor into a rotary encoder, of sorts.
Flickr user numist had a typerwriter that he wasn’t using anymore, so he converted it into a teleprinter.
Matt Cottam, founder of Tellart, presented Wooden Logic: In Search of Heirloom Electronics at interaction10 yesterday. Here are my running notes on his discussions of sketching with tangible objects, physical interfaces to the iPhone, and heirloom technology.
interaction10 got underway today in Savannah, Georgia, and among the first workshops of the day was Arduino project co-founder Massimo Banzi’s Tangible Interface Prototyping, which featured the soon-to-be-released TinkerKit, a collection of pluggable sensor modules designed to work with the Arduino electronic prototyping platform.
