Tinydino: World’s Smallest Arduino Clone?
Jaanus Kalde has made an Arduino clone that’s just 7.4 mm square. He used the ATmega88 chip and built the rest of the components around it.
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Two Turntables and a Firing Cone
From artist Fabien Clerc, this fully-functional set of two ceramic turntables (and a ceramic mixer) called back in the good old days. The work is dated 2009, and appeared in an exhibit at Geneva’s Rath museum.
New in the Maker Shed: Netduino Go Starter Kit
The Netduino Go is an open source, plug and play Netduino with 4 times the speed (168MHz), 6 times the code space (384KB) and twice the RAM (100KB+) of the Netduino Plus.
Lego Turing Machine
This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI’s exposition “Turings Erfenis” in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth on 23 June 1912. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who […]
Inductively Charged PVC LED Lantern Mod
Fifteen-year-old John Duffy is the subject of Gadget Freak Case #216, over at Design News, with his clever modification of Steve Hoefer’s Eternal Flame Indestructible LED Lantern from MAKE Vol 30.
Introducing the Gooseberry Board
Seems like there are a number of low power ARM SoC boards hitting the market recently. If the Beagle Bone, Raspberry Pi, and Via APC piqued your interest, you might want to also take a look at the recently announced Gooseberry. It’s an Allwinner A10 ARM SoC with 512MB RAM, 4GB onboard flash (up to 16GB with MicroSD), b/g/n Wifi, and goes for £40
Motion-Activated Sprinkler
I can imagine all sorts of uses for Phil Tucker’s motion-detect sprinkler home defense system. Testing a motion activate sprinkler. A TRENDnet IP camera triggers a GPIO output read by an Arduino which then triggers a relay/solenoid valve to turn on a sprinkler. IP camera already records video and sends email alerts.