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Some photos from the pre-Arduino meet up @adafruit and from the Arduino meet up at ITP - incredible group, tons of fun - can't wait to see everyone again! (photos here)...
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Aaron Alai designed this kicking electronic business card, which demonstrates how transistor amplifiers work.
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I recently placed an order for some vibration motors from BGMicro -- a a neat little hobbyist-focused 'tronics seller out of Garland, Texas. They had vibration motors for 69ยข so I threw 10 in my shopping cart. When I...
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What's got four 7-segment displays (and driver), a temperature sensor, a PWM RGB LED, and plugs into an Arduino? Why it's the Arduino 7-Segment Shield! This is a 7-segment shield for Arduino NG/Dicimila/Duemilanove and many Freeduino boards. It has tons of cool features! Fully assembled and tested! NOTE: Does not include the Arduino board.
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Thingaverse user Skimbal designed and printed this Gothic cathedral play set on his Makerbot.
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Our Coding4Fun neighbors had a lot of great projects on display, including their Coding4Fun Cannon, which was a robotic t-shirt launching platform with two barrels. What's more, it was controlled by a Windows Phone 7 app, and they completed it in two weeks
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NYC health officials decide to allow beekeeping... Beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret. The city's Board of Health decided Tuesday to allow beekeeping in the city after a...
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Notice tarp taped to the ground, stocking feet, and cotton gloves, all used to keep the fragile balloon intact. Bright tape on the camera-carrying cooler helped them recover the balloon rig. To the left can (barely) be seen cellphone and...
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Ad agency GGRP recently built this cardboard record player.
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Cube.ly appears to be a 3D printer that uses 80/20 girders for the 2'x2'x2' chassis, with all electronic components identical to those used in the Makerbot and Mendel. The project's charter describes the project's goals: Provide a fully capable...
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It's about time somebody made a media award that actually does something other than serve as a impromptu murder weapon. At this years SXSW festival, the Web Awards were built around Bleep Labs' Thingamagoop 2, the analog synth toy...
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ASPEX, a company that makes desktop scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), is running a promotional campaign under which anyone can mail them a sample, which they will then image under one of their SEMs. The results will be posted on their webpage, and all for free! Challenge: Take advantage of their offer to produce publishable data. [via Boing Boing]
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Musician, artist, engineer and programmer Eric Singer is starting an interesting project, called the hacker helpline.
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Peter Atwood of Turners Falls, Mass. makes his living as a knife- and toolmaker. He produces limited runs of unique items every few days, which he then posts on his blog, Planet Pocket Tool. The name of his blog...
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A couple of us from MAKE attended an inspirational meeting on Wednesday at Eyebeam in NYC with the most influential people in open source hardware including Limor Fried, Bunnie Huang (Chumby), and the Arduino team. Legal counsel from Creative...
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Wish you had access to tools like milling machines, 3d scanners, and laser cutters, but don't have the budget or space to keep them at your home?
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Personally, these laser-cut plastic end tables by Israel's Studio Groovy (Fair warning: I couldn't actually find them on their Flash-y website.) are not to my taste, but I really like the fact that that they put some old vinyl records in their laser cutter and managed to make something fairly cool out of them. Bonus: The table on the left uses the cut-out from the table on the right as decoration, so there's very little waste. [via Recyclart]
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The Arduino random() function can be used to easily generate a seemingly unpredictable series of numbers. The only problem is, from the first time it's used in a sketch, random() actually begins spitting out the same series of seemingly...
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This is the fanciest first aid kit I've ever seen! MacGuffin Films made this one up with everything they might need for a location shoot for about $235 total, not including the $55 Husky case. In addition to bandaging...
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