Our friend Thanassis Tsiodras, who you may remember as the creator of the offline Wikipedia reader, wrote in to tell us about a handy way to plot real-time data using standard unix tools. For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on European Space Agency (ESA) projects – writing rather complex code generators. In […]
Trive wrote in about the robochild of a quite unorthodox LEGO/Arduino marriage: It’s a self-balacing robot inspired to the well-known Segway. Its brain is Arduino and that’s why it’s called “Arduway”. Arduino is mounted on a hand-soldered board which connects it to two LEGO NXT motors and an Epson gyroscope. Aduino Poet, the robot’s creator […]
Jon Bennett created a nifty wireless telepresence bot out of a thrift store RC car, a Linksys WRT54GL router running the Open-WRT Linux firmware, a network camera, and a microcontroller. He’s built two variations: one controlled by a PIC microprocessor, and the other controlled by an Arduino. You can use whichever processor you are more […]
Our friend Becky Stern posted a video on Craft today which shows you how to mold and cast small parts out of resin. It’s something anyone can do, and the process will allow you to make reproductions of small parts, something that could come in handy when you’re prototyping (or designing tiny custom army men). […]
A friend of mine has been patiently waiting for weeks to get accepted into the iPhone Developer Program. Turns out, he’s not the only one facing difficulties with the official development process. Mike Ash recorded his own experience in developing an application for distribution in Apple’s app store, and even when you’re accepted and everything […]
Standford’s Stanford’s School of Engineering has released a number of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses online, in their entirety, called Standford Engineering Everywhere. The online program includes all course materials—notes, tests, and complete lecture recordings—free for students or educators to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. SEE users may pick […]
Seeking the perfect espresso, Home-Barista user matadero210 decided to take matters into his own hands and craft a custom espresso machine from scratch. The Pavoni is not really up to the rigors of 9 bar. It flexes and tries to move. A second hand is nearly always used to hold the machine in place. This […]
