Software, meet hardware. The Netduino Mini from the Maker Shed is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. The board features a 32-bit microcontroller and a rich development environment, making it a perfect solution for engineers and hobbyists alike. Features 1.2″ x 0.6″ – tiny “DIP microchip” form factor with edge pins […]
The Arduino Nano 3.0 is a surface mount breadboard compatible version of the ever-popular Arduino micro controller. It’s small, has integrated USB, and is breadboard friendly. It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. Physically, it’s missing the power jack, but it can still sense and […]
Stitching postcards by Leihener, Seng, and Valder for Details. [via Cool Hunting]
For the past few years, we ran a column called “Ask MAKE,” where we attempted to answer reader-submitted questions about all things making.
This neat experiment uses a Teensy development board, an MMA7455L accelerometer, and an OLED display to show a cube in three dimensions. The acceleration sensor MMA7455L is used to measure the direction of the gravity vector to rotate a cube accordingly. [Via Dangerous Prototypes, thanks Ian!]
These chemical crayon labels from Etsy user, Queinteresante, are so fantastic. They are made to stick on the label of crayons, and give the chemicals that make the colors of the crayons. Awesome! I’ll take a Pheomelanin, please. [via Geek Crafts]
Project HiJack is an elegant take on an old idea. Ye-Sheng Kuo, Thomas Schmid, and Prabal Dutta from the University of Michigan’s EECS Department have done the iPhone hacking world a solid by producing one of the coolest little pieces of kit to come around in a long time. In short, the device can pull several milliwatts at 3 V and communicate at 8.82 kbaud using the iPhone’s headset port. Its design encourages the use of daughterboard peripherals to sense and collect data.
