Open Source Hardware

Arduino robot

Dan writes – I’ve been receiving lots of neat little packages in the mail lately full of magical trinkets. Alone, they’re totally useless, but if you take the trinkets and arrange them just so, they’ll let you tell them what to do. Naturally the first thing I thought to make was a tank. I built […]

New Chumby is here!

New Chumby is here!

The new Chumby is here and it’s great! Here are some quick pics! The Chumby is an open source squeezable, Wi-Fi bean-bag computer – Link. Congrats to everyone @ Chumby and special thanks to Bunny for showing all of us what it’s like to bring a product to market like this and releasing it (including […]

SensorBib upright bass augmentation

Spencer Russell created a “sleeve” for his upright bass to house electronic sensors which detect his position relative to the instrument. The sensors use an Arduino board to communicate with a computer running PD (PureData) to translate the sensor information into sound. He used Blender and QCad to make a 3D model of his bass […]