DIY Gadgets with BugLabs (video)
Rocketboom visits BugLabs – great video!
Open Source Hardware
BUGbot Wheels Module – Open source hardware on wheels!
BUGbot Wheels Module by Ilan Moyer– Ilan Moyer stopped by the Test Kitchen for a visit. With the CAD files he downloaded from BUG he was able to fabricate a base for wheels. The wheels use DC motors and a motor driver. They are programmable over serial, but we were trying to get the data […]
Make electricity with the back shed
Brian sends this about The Back Shed, a great site with info about windmills and renewable energy. There is an excellent page about getting started with windmills. Particularly interesting isthe project for converting junker computer parts and pvc into a wind powered battery charger. Home made wind generators have been around for decades, with designs […]
Using Arduinos for multi-touch tables to save budgets…
This article was about spending cuts but this caught my eye… The UA Flandrau Science Center is going to roll their own multi-touch tables using Arduino… …Faust says that typical exhibit designs and construction can be expensive–and that exhibits break down or get boring after awhile. Therefore, the UA thinks a different approach is in […]
Jock Brandis makes life better with peanuts
Jock Brandis saw how people live and decided to make it better. Brandis created the Full Belly Project collaborated with Amy Smith‘s Engineering research group at MIT to develop an innovative and open source design to shell peanuts quickly and effectively. On a trip to West Africa to help a friend fix a solar-powered drinking […]
Chumby makes Quake huggable
Noah points out this article over @ bunnie’s blog, showing some pretty smooth FPS gaming on the open-source squeezable – xobs, a developer at chumby, showed me one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while on a chumby: a full port of Quake. He got the whole thing running under SDL and hacked […]
Open source hardware 2008 – The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2008
What is open source hardware? Briefly, these are projects that creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and “board” files to recreate the hardware – they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source hardware like Linux, but hardware centric. This is […]
