A New Sport: Crate Stacking
Crate stacking is a game. The objective is to stack as many upside-down plastic milk crates as possible and stand on the top. Come try it out at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire this Sunday in Oakland.
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Arduino644 in development
Instead of waiting around for a faster Arduino to be released, Zach of NYCResistor is developing his own – I’m in the process of porting the Arduino environment to the atmega644 for a skunkworks project I’m working on. This chip is awesome because it has 4x the flash (64k vs 16k) it has 4x the […]
Conveniently sized MIDI controllers
Most commercial MIDI controllers are unnecessarily large and awkward – certainly not designed to be on ones lap while soldering/bending/wiring/coding. Hopefully Korg’s upcoming line of “nano” devices can fill that void. Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music runs through the slated features – nanoKEY: 25 keys, transmitting either as MIDI notes or (via a separate […]
Homemade air conditioner version 4
Franco sent in this article detailing his new method for affordable cooling – The construction was fairly simple. It only took me a few hours. I used a 20 litre plastic container to house the heat exchanger and also hold the cooling medium which is ice-water in this case. I made the heat exchanger roughly […]
Eagle PCB software gets an overhaul
Eagle users, in case you haven’t heard: Cadsoft released version 5 of their popular PCB layout software – and with it a lot of very welcome changes. To name just a few – When clicking with the right mouse button on an object in an editor window, a context specific popup menu is now displayed […]
Max 5 software released
If you’ve been put off by the complexity of the Max/MSP multimedia development software in the past, you might want to give the new version a looksee. The developers have given the software a pretty major overhaul, visually simplifying much of the interface. – Max 5 Of course, the $495 price tag still remains an […]
The memristor
Purported to be the fourth major electronic component, HP is introducing the memristor – The new component is called the “memristor” — a word blend of “memory” and “resistor”. The physical working model and the mathematical model of the component were presented side by side in a paper in the journal Nature, yesterday. Four researchers […]
