This slide deck is a good resource for anyone looking to build a robot based on TI’s Beagle Board: At the Homebrew Robotics Club in Silicon Valley, on Nov 19, 2008, Nathan Monson introduced the BeagleBoard, focusing on the hardware and software features that make it popular among robot hobbyists. Building Robots with the BeagleBoard […]
LinuxDevices has published a paper that goes deep into into the open source (hardware and software) Elphel cameras: Foreword: — This paper describes the recent imaging advances by Elphel, supplier of open source (hardware and software) cameras to customers that include Google (for select Street View and book scanning projects). It should interest imaging engineers, […]
Nice Remixed Drawdio (originally developed by Jay Silver & adafruit industries). The kit is also available in the Maker Shed and moving fast! As a simple gEDA/PCB example I did a remix of Drawdio using the ladyada schematic. The documentation file contains plots of the schematic and pcb layouts, embedded datasheets of all components used, […]
One of the things that drew me to the Beagle Board was that it has a whole bunch of easily accessible sensor interfaces sticking right off its expansion header. All you need to do is solder on some kind of connector (I went for the Arduino-esque female headers as shown in the picture above). Once […]
The “Tweet-a-Watt, A twittering power meter” project that Limor Fried and I designed was selected as a “top 50” design for Greener Gadgets – if you like this project please vote for us. Last week we released the how-to, schematics and source – and have live charts! The response to this year’s Greener Gadgets Design […]
If you’ve never seen a kid make a Drawdio – you’re missing out. I get asked all the time what’s the best kit to build with a son and/or daughter and the Drawdio is my #1 pick. Drawdio is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw – it’s a very simple […]
Leaked picture of the upcoming XO-2 OLPC via netbooknews.de. The next OLPC is being reported to be an open source hardware project too… It appears that the very first photo of the next-generation OLPC XO 2.0 low-cost laptop has finally emerged on the Internet, showing us some of the things we should be expecting. In […]
