The Largest Collection of XBee Projects on the Web
When I opened up Digi’s new Tumblr, I was delighted to see a couple of my projects on the front page. The maker of XBee radios is now curating the Largest Collection of XBee Projects on the Web.
Wireless
XIG Update Pushes Wireless Data to Projects
The latest version of the XBee Internet Gateway lets you communicate in both directions with your wireless project, meaning you can do away with the pesky polling. It’s like saying “let me know when we get there,” instead of asking repeatedly “are we there yet?”
Making Money With Drone-Based Businesses
The emerging story of entrepreneurs using drones to provide marketable services is fascinating to me. Small businesses have been making money by making drones themselves for quite awhile, now, but I’m just now starting to see start-ups using drones to sell services. Aerial photography is maybe the most obvious opportunity—surveying real estate, covering sporting or […]
Teardown of the BIKN Smart Case for iPhone
Alasdair Allan, author of (among other things) iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino (aka the book about the Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS), has torn apart an interesting device: A couple of days ago I received a BiKN for iPhone case and tags, with just over a week between ordering and it arriving on […]
DIY Fractal Antenna for Digital TV
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr Pool, this homemade fractal antenna for digital television signals by Roy Jacobsen of Fargo, ND. Instructions for, and discussions of, similar designs are available in this Instructable from William Ruckman. Judging from the comments over there, folks who have built their own fractal antennae are quite pleased with how they […]
Hexcopter Drone Platform Kit on Kickstarter (UPDATED)
UPDATE (1/26/2012 2:56 pm Pacific: Kickstarter funding for the eye3 project was canceled by the project creator. UPDATE: Since posting this, I’ve received a number of emails about this Kickstarter project and Lumenlab, the company behind it. Some people have complained that they have placed large orders for Lumenlab kits but have not received them. […]
Coffee Can Doppler Radar Set
Radio hacker extraordinaire Greg Charvat is back with this 15-minute video lecture showing off and explaining the measurement of moving objects’ velocities using the low-cost coffee can radar system he and co-workers at MIT developed, in the fall of 2010, for their open courseware initiative. The video begins with a chalk talk describing the operation […]
