“Repurpose”, an awesome little documentary short by Jack Oatmon. The video is centered around Montreal’s Foulab hardware hacking group and aims to introduce the hackerspace concept to newcomers. Why are more and more hobbyists experimenting with hacks and circuit bends? What relationship does this imply about consumer society and technological advancement? Is this a real-world […]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s FSR tutorial, Limor and Phil continue their Sensor Tutorial series with another crystal-clear exposition of a component, this one on the photocell (aka CdS, LDR, photoresistor). Great stuff, guys. Thanks! Photocells
Adafruit has posted another one of their awesome electronics tutorials, this one on Force Sensitive Resistors. Force Sensitive Resistors are for squeezing!
On the HacDC mailing list, we’ve been having a discussion about Wolfram|Alpha and some of the amazing things it can do (and some of the controversy already surrounding it). Here ‘s the return on a query for resistor values. Wolfram|Alpha
Check out this iPhone-controlled 5×7 laser matrix built utilizing 35 laser pointers, a PIC16F722 microcontroller, some miscellaneous parts, and a custom iPhone app.
Aaron ALAI’s EMF detector project looked so simple and fun I had to give it a try!
MAKE Advisory Board member Joe Grand got himself a T-Tech Quick Circuit 5000 PCB prototyping machine in the lab and has been messing around with using it to create PCB art. The third image is based on art by Neil Kronenberg, created for this year’s DEFCON conference, and the last image is by our very […]
