EiED online’s Bill Wong reviews the propellor multicore processor from Parallax (best known for their BASIC stamp) – “Parallax took a major turn from its bread and butter Basic Stamps and SX processors with its new Propeller architecture. The Propeller packs eight 32-bit processors, called cogs, into a single package… Packing eight identical processors in […]
Adam writes – “Today with the help of my four year old son Kai, we built a little experimenter’s board because he has been wanting to “learn about ‘lectricty” for a while now. First I found an old piece of MDF from my shed and cut off a bit about 10″ by 6″. Then I […]
William writes – “I did a review of Microbric’s Viper Robotics Development kit. It’s a very inexpensive kit for what you get – a Basic Atom motherboard, two high quality gear motors, various sensors and building blocks” – Link. Related: Robotics archives – Link. Robotics projects Link. Kit kit kits – Link.
TubeHobby has a pretty nice selection of Nixie tube kits that I haven’t seen around until now… like this GPS Nixie clock dev board – “NCDB V1.3 is a GPS Nixie Clock without enclosure. Clock contains main board and tube’s board with IN-8-2 nixie tubes. Board is fully assembled, ultrasonically washed and tested…This flexible, professionally […]
Matt (from Phidgets USA) has a new robotics store, if you’re in to robotics, go check it out – “We have worked hard to create a new retail site for the community of robotics developers and we hope that Trossen Robotics will become a valuable resource for all. We invite you to stop by and […]
Here are a couple open source MP3 player kits, PCB/schematics & source are all available – Link.
Mr_tentacle posted a bit about his new robot, the Gloom II – he writes “Gloom II replaces the original “Gloom”, which died of unknown causes. This is a Solarbotics Sumovore kit, which is a decent kit as these things go, but had a few issues, the biggest being a flawed trace on the main board […]
