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Mintronics: Menta

Mintronics: Menta

The Mintronics: Menta is a unique Arduino-compatible microcontroller kit. It features a handy, on-board prototyping space and is specifically designed to use the included mint tin as an enclosure! This makes it perfect for logging applications and on-the-go development. The prototyping area is perfectly sized for one of our mini breadboards (not included) so you […]

HAB APRS Tracker

HAB APRS Tracker

You don’t just wake up one day and decide you are going to send a camera into space. But I kind of did. I teach high school at Beaufort High in Beaufort, South Carolina. I think it was the first or second day of the Christmas break for the 2009-2010 school year that I was […]

Tweet-A-Watt Power Monitor

Tweet-A-Watt Power Monitor

By Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone We live in a rented apartment, so we don’t have hacking access to a power meter or breaker panel. But we still wanted to measure our household power usage long-term, so we developed the Tweet-a-Watt. It uses plug-in electricity monitors at each outlet to wirelessly send readings to a […]