A demonstration of the littleBits electronic component system in use prototyping some features for a coffee maker design. littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool(originally) Assembling Feurig’s open source Serial to USB converter seems a worthwhile way to try your hand at surface-mount soldering. – The benito board was designed to allow people with intermediate soldering skills to build their own Atmel AT90usb162 based devices. The processor itself is a tqfp and the remaining components […]
Paul writes in – You just blogged about aviators, EAA, and Makers. Once we finish building our airplanes, another cool thing that we’re very lucky to be able to do is modify and improve them as well. That’s something you’re not legally allowed to do to the average Cessna. Sadly, since there’s no runway at […]
Todbot’s wrap up (and slides) of The Sketching in Hardware ’08 conference! The Sketching in Hardware ’08 conference was held a RISD in Providence, Rhode Island this year. Both RISD and Providence were very welcoming and I think we had a lot of fun. Once again, Mike pulls off an awesome conference. For my talk, […]
Rick Roll in semaphore. Controlled by an arduino and two stepper motors….
Here are our slides in PDF format from our talk at Ignite NYC… Limor Fried (ladyada) & Phillip Torrone (Make) “Citizen Engineer” – Open source hardware, hacking SIM cards, modding a payphone for fun and for profit. (Biz geek side note) At the end we have some quick estimates on the CPM that some could […]
Tomorrow night, Thursday, July 24, as part of its week-long grand opening celebrations, HacDC is holding a town hall meeting to discuss hackerspace, the open source community, and the future of hacker/maker orgs in the metro area. I will be a member of the panel, representing MAKE, Alberto Gaitan will be representing Dorkbot DC, and […]
