Next july (23rd to 27th) I’m excited to be at Supsi Summer School (Ticino) to talk about and prototyping on open-source fashion with Massimo Banzi. You can find the complete description below and apply to the course at this link. Overview Physical computing encompasses the design of interactive physical systems through the use of software
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I’m very happy to announce that Arduino 1.0.1 is now available on the software page. This release includes a ton of bug fixes and new features (see the release notes for details). The biggest additions are support for the Arduino Leonardo and translation of the Arduino development environment into multiple languages. We’ll be doing a
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In his blog, Charalampos describes his experience with SeeedStudio’s Grove Ear-clip Heart Rate sensor and Cosm (former Pachube) cloud service. The employed sensor is quite cheap and can detect heart pulses from the ear lobe, by measuring the infra-red light reflected by the tissue and by checking for intensity variations. By connecting this sensor with an ADK board
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Social Jukebox is an Arduino-powered music player tailored to allow music sharing through tangible interaction. The device, based on wooden tokens, has the aim of bring back the physical aspect of music sharing and allow multi-user listening in a social environment. The tokens have RFID chips embedded in them, so the music player can read the link to
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The Open Source Hardware, Electronics and Robotics Convention is a 3-day event organized by the Synusia collective. The aim of the Convention is to extend the Open Source Software and to promote electronics and the philosophy of “do it yourself”. The event will take place in Madrid at the Centro de Formación Padre Piquer, from the 21 to 23
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In this instructible I will show you how I make my servo stand. This stand is useful if you want to test a new way to control a servo but dont want to use a servo on your robot or something. make Step 1: Cut the wood cut 2 5inch pieces of 2×4 then measure
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Hi all! This is the most useless project in the world! It consist in a Coke can attached to an Arduino trough a coaxial cable and two resistors that make a sound when an hand is near it. Step 1: Materials and Tools For make that I’ve used: Materials: -1x Arduino Uno Board (or equivalent)
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I got this idea for a while but I never had the chance to try it out. Friday, a workmate gave me a LCD shield for Arduino and I thought that was the right time to build a clock that comunicate the time through QR-codes. Of course, it’s extremely useless (as most of the clocks nowadays). In the
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The YaNis EOS controller is a device that allows you to wirelessly control your Canon DSLR from your Android phone. What’s really exciting here is that the Android interface allows you to change most of the camera’s settings (like Shutter Speed, Aperture Size, ISO, White Balance, Focus Position and others) from more than 20 meters
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The two-day annual festival that took place May 19 and 20 in San Mateo draws nearly 100,000 visitors, and hundreds of Makers, many from our own backyards. Ana Araujo of Campbell who owns When Creativity Knocks, an online craft resource offered a free do-it-yourself workshop to make a mini blackboard made out of old vinyl
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