New from SparkFun: A small, but very mighty power supply. This board was designed to be as small and inconspicuous as possible. The nice thing about LiPower is the ability to use rechargable Lithium Polymer batteries. These batteries are smaller, flatter, and last much longer than a AAA battery. Attach a single cell LiPo battery, […]
There are a lot of articles coming out soon about open source hardware, the “DIY trend” and a whole bunch of exciting things, here’s an interview with Nathan Seidle of Spark Fun Electronics. Once and a while there is criticism that there “isn’t any money” in the DIY world, what’s actually happening is there are […]
Ladyada writes – Stacy Millions built his mintyboost to match up with a OpenMoko Neo phone. By default, the phone uses the ‘correct’ 100mA drain current to charge when there is no USB enumeration. However, it is possible to force the phone into using a 500mA charging current via software. So he wrote a little […]
Nice article @ Wired about an upcoming open source textbook company… I’m looking forward to the first open source text book on open source hardware :) A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make […]
The Aurora USB control surface has just been released in kit and prebuilt versions. It’s aesthetics and synchronized light effects definitely set it apart from the usual retail offerings – and the open source design means it’s quite friendly to modification. Create Digital Music had a sit-down with the device’s creators and gave took it […]
The Touchkit multitouch interface project just released their hardware and software source docs for your downloading pleasure – TouchKit is comprised of software and hardware components. For both we provide the source files and welcome you to use, study, and appropriate the code and schematics for your work or projects. We are interested in TouchKit […]
Via Kate Hartman’s flickr – The XBee Lilypad project that Rob Faludi and Kate Hartman have been working on is looking great. They took the cc-licenced board design from Leah Buechley’s Lilypad Arduino and made this sewable XBee radio. More: LilyPad Arduino meets XBee radios for a chat
