While it would be very useful, the thought of putting my Arduino projects on the GSM wireless network intimidates me a bit. Luckily, John Boxall of tronixstuff walks us through the process in part one of his Sparkfun GSM Shield tutorial. He breaks down how to dial a number and send a text message by […]
YouTuber chipos81’s Z-Machine port to the Livescribe Echo yields one of the best known text-based adventure games to paper.
Akiba of Freak Labs wrote in to share how he used one of his open hardware Freakduino boards to create a realtime wireless protocol analyzer for the 802.15.4 standard.
It’s on! Freaklabs writes – Earlier this month, GE officially endorsed ZigBee as the wireless standard of choice for smart appliances in a white paper, but the Wi-Fi guys aren’t having any of it. The Wi-Fi Alliance released a statement yesterday denouncing the white paper as “flawed” and “inaccurate.” Read more.
MAKE contributor David Simpson wrote to tell us about a workshop he’s going to be doing at the Spy Museum next month: We all love spy gear, from the wacky Maxwell Smart rotary-dial shoephone to the grab bag of goodies Bond always so nonchalantly snares from Q. Thank you, MAKE, for Volume 16, the “Spy […]
Check out this repurposed IM-Me instant messaging toy turned pocket spectrum analyzer from embedded hacker Michael Ossmann. What’s more, he’s included source.
Copper-clad board is strong, lightweight, good-looking, and reportedly has EM shielding benefits desirable for low-power ham operators. Ken (wa4mnt) at QRP Builder has produced a nicely-detailed tutorial (PDF) that shows off the precise hand-work that goes into making his cases. Nuts are soldered to the board to provide threaded closures. [via Hack a Day]
