Circuit Skills: LED Color Organ
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/circuit_skills_led_color_organ_spon.html
Join Collin as he synchronizes light to sound using the power of analog circuitry. It’s disco-tech!
Kits
New in the Maker Shed: DrinkShield for Arduino
The DrinkShield is an open source Breathalyzer kit for the Arduino. It’s a great starter kit that was originally designed for Hackerspace parties. The DrinkShield can work as a standalone breathalyzer or you can connect it to a computer for and interact directly with the results. Source code repository comes with a game to use […]
New in the Maker Shed: LED Dice kit
Designed for beginners, the LED Dice kit from the Maker Shed comes with everything you need to make your own ‘Electronic Die’. Just tap the completed Dice kit on the table and the LEDs light up, displaying a random number from 1 to 6. After a short period of time the LED dice will go […]
EMSL Egg-Bot kit drops this month
I’m generally not much of a kit-buyer, but it seems like each one Windell and Lenore release is better than the last. They almost had me with the Bulbdial clock; I will probably not be able to resist the new Egg-Bot kit. They’re taking preorders now, and the first kits are supposed to ship at the end of this month. Looks like new orders are already backed up into October.
Having trouble getting parts? Electronic component shortages may last through 2011
Electronic component shortages may last through 2011 via Chris… Memory chips and other fundamental components such as resistors and capacitors are in short supply after their makers slashed output, fired staff, put equipment purchases on hold or went out of business during the recession. In contrast to what happened in 2001 after the dot.com crash, […]
How-To: Take great photos of your projects
There are a lot of photography tutorials, but not a many that specifically talk about taking photos for electronics projects – here’s one of hopefully many! This tutorial by John De Cristofaro (Johngineer) aims to teach you how to take photos of your hacks and projects for sharing on the web, and perhaps even in […]
Open music labs introduces the MICrODEC A Microcontroller and a Codec รขโฌโ A Reprogrammable Audio Processor
Open music labs introduces the MICrODEC – A Microcontroller and a Codec รขโฌโ A Reprogrammable Audio Processor. Clean design, with an AVR performing all the CODEC functions (handwritten in assembly!). Engraved aluminum case is available, the box is a semi-kit, so all the SMT stuff is soldered on for you already – This could easily […]
