Posted March 19, 2013 by Chris

“I will show you how I made the cube on the Flower protoboard, and finally the code to make it shine. You will see the point-to-point wiring is very clear.”

Very similar to our own "Building An 8x8x8 LED Cube" project.

Posted March 17, 2013 by Chris

“The Shrimp circuit is an Arduino Uno substitute with a component cost of around one tenth the price of official Arduino boards. You can hand-make the circuit on breadboard or stripboard, learning about the components as you go, and remix the circuit freely for your needs.”

Posted March 8, 2013 by Chris

“Deadly, yet adorable, this plush turret from the game Portal talks and responds when you play with it. It senses when you pick it up, knock it over, or walk in front of it. The stuffing and soft fleece skin make it super cuddly, too!”

Posted March 6, 2013 by Chris

“Our project was, to put it simply, a personal informatics black box that you clip onto your belt. As you go about your day your activity, surrounding environment and locations are tracked to produce a report telling you how much time you spent inside and outside. The device leverages off of a system-of-systems providing context-aware analysis for such ubiquitous computing devices.”

Posted March 4, 2013 by Chris

“Over the weekend, me and a friend of mine, cannibalized a 9 Lira RC car into line a follower. Code in this post covers everything up to [this] commit cf731aedc156f067aa221, refer to this particular commit for this project cause we plan on improving hence code will change. Stuff you will need: 3x QTR-1RC Reflectance Sensor, Ardumoto – Motor Driver Shield and A cheap RC car.”

Posted February 25, 2013 by Chris

“A gadget that I demonstrate today is a portable autonomous barcode scanner built using an Arduino board, USB Host shield, handheld USB barcode scanner and LCD display. The operation is simple – when handheld scanner button is pressed, it scans the barcode and sends it to the Arduino symbol by symbol. The Arduino then outputs these symbols on LCD display.”

Posted February 22, 2013 by Chris

“I spent part of an afternoon developing a hardware RSS reader (most of my time was spent on the python side of things). It’s pretty simple and uses an AVR microcontroller connected to a computer via a serial cable.”

Posted February 18, 2013 by Chris

“Only recently I’ve found the time to expand my old project in the most obvious way possible; by adding 3 more buttons to these IO ports and thereby creating a 4-key-keyboard, without having to add any other hardware than these 3 extra buttons.”

Posted February 10, 2013 by Chris

“The 48h project con­sisted of build­ing a hel­met device with humid­ity, tem­per­a­ture and fluid intake sen­sors, used to record and mea­sure the reac­tion of nuclear taco vic­tims of Codeb­its 2011 Nuclear Taco Chal­lenge. The sen­sors and ser­vos are con­nected by Arduino. 6 time­lapse videos were recorded doc­u­ment­ing the user expe­ri­ence. The host dis­played using face sub­sti­tu­ion tech­nol­ogy in realtime.”

Posted February 2, 2013 by Chris

“Every time I talk about the All Spark Cube people ask ‘so what does it do?’ The features of the All Spark are the reason it was built and sponsored by Adaptive Computing. The Cube was built to catch peoples’ attention and to demonstrate how Adaptive can take a chaotic mess and inject order, structure and efficiency. We wrote several examples of how the All Spark Cube can demonstrate the effectiveness of a complex data center.”