Hands-On with Sphero’s Star Wars BB-8 Toy
An interactive toy version of everyone’s new favorite Star Wars droid, BB-8, is now rolling into retail stores.
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Control an Arduino with Your Smartphone via Blynk
Blynk is a new platform that allows you to build interfaces for controlling and monitoring your projects from your iOS and Android device.
Bob Ross “The Joy of Painting” Smartphone and Tablet Apps
I just thought you all should know that a Bob Ross app now exists for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Building a Braille Smartphone
I got an idea of building a smartphone for the blind that is completely Braille-based. With absolutely no hint of how to make it, I started working on it.
Monitor the UV Index With UVindeSir
I love the idea of modular sensors that can be plugged into a smartphone. Case in point, the UVindeSir, a tiny UV sensor that can be plugged into a smartphone’s headphone jack and returns the UV Index, temperature, as well as a SPF suggestion, and will remind you to put on some sun block. The […]
Drop Tester for Smart Phone Protective Film
Have you seen this impressive video that shows what happens when you drop a steel ball onto a piece of Gorilla Glass 2 (used in the display of many smart phones, including the iPhone) with and without the protection of a clear polymer material called Rhino Shield? Rhino Shield was developed at  Evolutive Labs, a Cambridge […]
Hand powered smartphone charger updated
Back in October 2010 Ben Heckendorn discovered that a hand-cranked LED flashlight had enough juice to recharge his smartphone. He recently revisited this idea on his show and updated the hack by adding a simple voltage regulating circuit using a Zener diode and a 100hm resister. He also added a USB port to plug in a microUSB recharging cable.