David writes in – I put this site together really quickly to document a project I’ve been working on from time to time for a while now. This device plugs into a PC and streams my friends’ latest Twitter messages across its little LED screen. There are lots of skills that would probably be of […]
It’s been a year since our last open source gift guide – this year there is so much going on in the world of MAKE, open source, and beyond that we have a series of gift guides for this holiday season. The first one is our open source hardware gift guide – these are physical […]
Robert Scoble has 3 interviews with the folks from BUG labs (Peter Semmelhack & #38;Jeremy Toeman) makers of a forthcoming open source hardware platform for creating a variety of hardware applications… Video one, introduction – Link. Video two, final shipping plastic – Link. Video three, open hardware – Link. Bug Labs – [via] Link. Related: […]
In Japan we met with Shigeru Kobayashi (gainer.cc). gainer.cc is an open source Cypress chip-based dev board with an open IDE. Shigeru is working on a wireless XBee prototyping dev board (above). Shigeru also has a new book Physical computer with gainer it’s somewhat like our Making things talk but in Japanese and gainer specific […]
Here’s how to control an Arduino remotely over the internet via HTML forms and/or CGI URL encoding… Link.
Joe writes in – I wanted to let you know about something we feel is a pretty significant open source milestone. Namely that we were able to help get TI to release a free compiler for their c54x DSP. It’s especially significant considering they have a big profitable division turning out these proprietary, expensive tools. […]
Windell at Evil Mad Scientist writes: Hanukkah in particular has been a festival of lights for more than a dozen centuries longer than there have been lights on Christmas trees. History notwithstanding, Hanukkah still lags behind Christmas in the transition from traditional light sources like candles towards microcontroller driven arrays of LEDs. While that may […]
