How the ESP8266 Community Added Arduino Support for the $5 Microcontroller
I talk to Richard Sloan, who along with Ivan Grokhotkov, recently added support for the $5 ESP8266 microcontroller with onboard WiFi to the Arduino IDE.
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Beary Soothing: 3D-Printed Teddy Runs Spotify with a Raspberry Pi
Built from scratch, this electronic Teddy Bear will amaze and entertain children of all ages with its bright buttons and musical capabilities. In an effort to learn 3-D modeling, Andreas Lindahl came up with this build he calls SpotiBear 1.0. A big part of the initial motivation for this tech toy came from a desire […]
Who Needs a Smartwatch? This Enigma Machine Fits on Your Wrist
Enigma machines were extremely interesting coding machines used by Germany during World War II. As digital logic was still in its infancy, these machines used rotors configured in a certain pattern to decode the gibberish sent from military commanders to units in the field. Although mechanical marvels, they came nowhere near being small enough to […]
Countdown to the PSoC Pioneer Challenge Deadline — Your Final Weekend
This is the final weekend to prepare your PSoC Pioneer Challenge project
What Do Jurrassic Park, Twisted Metal, and Waffles Have in Common? Power Wheels Racing
Coming to the 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire is the 7th season of Power Wheels racing. The Power Racing Series is a vaguely popular nerd “sport” that mods simple toy store ride-on plastic cars and converts them into $500 25mph electric racing machines. The series’ main take home is the “enforcement” of a tiny budget with sort […]
Gallery: MIT Celebrates Arduino Day
The Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts provided a bright, stark-white-and-glass frame for a US-based celebration that featured four of the five Arduino founders. David Mellis, one of the co-founders, is a graduate student at the Media Lab. He was the in-house connection. (No surprise that the fifth co-founder, Gianluca Martino, was not present.) Check […]
Seamless Accelerator to Foster IoT Startups
A new coalition of companies and venture capitalists, including Start Garden and Steelcase, aims to make Grand Rapids, Michigan a specialized hub for IoT ideas and products. Dubbed the Seamless Accelerator, the coalition’s goal is to provide startups with both initial capital and mentorship to encourage innovation and solve challenges associated with IoT development. “We really can’t […]
