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Leonard Souza wanted to control a large LED panel using flash, so he cooked up a solution using a Java UDP client, which then relays the data over a serial port to an Arduino, which finally transmits the data over SPI to the Peggy.
Heatswell via NOTCOT. Pour a hot beverage like coffee, tea, hot chocolate or soup into this thin stackable coffee cup and watch its midsection swell to form a cool insulating collar – a 100% genuine endothermic reaction.
Zurich-based Myriad has announced a new tool called J2Android that converts Java MIDlet apps to run on Android.
Our BFFs over at iFixIt went medieval on the just-released Nintendo DSi XL. They sort of looked at it as practice, keeping themselves in shape and head-sharp for this Saturday’s iPad release. You know they’ll be the first in line, screwdrivers and spudgers twitching in their hands. On the DSi XL teardown, Kyle writes: Nintendo […]
All joking aside, this thing may be the most beautiful piece of kinetic art I have ever seen. It has a Cartesian robot to draw 1s or 0s on the tape as needed, a rolling felt-covered drum for erasing symbols, a camera that can recognize what symbols have already been written, a bank of white LEDs to provide illumination for the camera, and a beautiful custom control panel.
MAKE subscriber Todd Harrison sent us the link to this project he did, retrofitting a car jumper box with a 12v riding lawn mower battery instead of the $75 (plus shipping) drop-in replacement. The modded version cost him about $35. Car starter “jumper box” mod
Maker Chris Harrison built this cheerful Star Wars inspired LEGO iPhone dock.
