Re-Wired Helmet Restores the Auditory Experience
DIY bone-conduction helmet restorer’s maker’s hearing in one ear.
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Top 10: Oomlout Factory Hacks
Regular readers will be familiar with UK open source hardware kitmakers oomlout. We love their products and link out to them a lot. This post is not about what they sell, however; it’s about what they share. The folks at oomlout are fairly obsessive process engineers, and are constantly hacking, modding, and tweaking their in-house production equipment to make their assembly and packing operations smooth and efficient….
Festo ExoHand
I don’t know what to say about this, beyond the fact that Festo can sure turn out a cool robot video. Check out all the other Festo pr0n on the site! [via the NXT Step]
Electronic Piggybank Enjoys Feeding, Tracks Savings
Becky’s latest project over at adafruit shows off some of the possibilities of the cool surplus vending machine coin acceptors they just added to their catalog. It has an Arduino for brains, an LCD shield to report your balance, and an LED that makes piggy glow when you feed him the monies. The more loot in your hoard, the brighter he glows
Soapbox: My Top 10 Favorite Arduino-Compatible “Clones” and Derivatives
My article last week about Arduino counterfeits (as in companies actually using the Arduino name, logo, and trademark) and selling them as real Arduinos had some lively debate. Opinion articles are always interesting, because you get a huge spectrum of comments. A variety of opinions were represented for sure: there are folks who think it’s […]
Arduino Mod Lets Disabled Musicians Play Guitar
Justin’s device, dubbed the Folkbox, has rows of buttons mounted beneath the neck of the guitar that play chords when depressed. The buttons are hooked up to solenoids that depress the proper strings, allowing the user to play a multitude of different chords.
Environmental Sensing with the JeeLabs Platform
JeeLab’s Jean-Claude Wippler has been “rethinking the Arduino interface” since 2008, when he first attached an ISM band radio to a Modern Device Real Bare Bones Board. Three and a half years later he has built quite a library of sensors and breakout “plugs” for the JeeLabs Platform. The heart of the platform is the […]