CamBam
I’m at the Metalab in Vienna and the guys here are working with a CNC Router to cut out Invaders! They’re using CamBam, which is an open source program for Windows. – Link Update: after seeing it work, I’m impressed…
Bre Pettis
Pure Data Facelift
photo credit: aoifejohanna All I’m waiting for to begin work on my monome, are 64 red LEDs and so I’m thinking ahead about programming languages. I don’t speak a programming language, but I may be looking to get started soon…
Microcontroller Study Group Tonight
Tonight, Wednesday October 24th at 7pm, we’ll be meeting at the lemurplex to share projects. Direction Link There will be chance for you to share your work, a short tutorial on servos, and time to set up partnerships for collaborations!…
New York City – City of Steam (Robot Included)
I’m on the lookout for some Victorian era clothes to wear to the steampunk themed Chaos Communications Congress this winter. If you’ve got a source or costume shop to recommend, let me know. While searching for top hats, bow ties,…
Fab @ Home
Here’s an interesting vid about the fab@home peeps. – Link Fab@home wiki – Link 3 of these were to be sold at Maker Faire and it looks like only one sold at $2500 – Link
Ultimate Hacker Workshop Space: Under City Hall
Under City Hall lies an abandoned subway stop and while it would be really difficult to heat in the winter, wouldn’t it be awesome to have a hacker space there?- Link Note: If you ride the 6 train and fall…
Paper Circuits
Peter Blasser is a circuit bender who publishes his circuits by drawing them out. This makes a lot of sense and makes it easy to see how everything is laid out. Print them out and put them next to your…
8-Step Sequencer
Circuit bending is where you take old toys and turn them into musical instruments. Casperelectronics is one of my favorite circuit bending blogs and Pete Edwards, the author, just posted about a step sequencer he built out of a 555…
Cheapest Arduino Ever
Ok, this thing even has Arduino Clone stamped right on it and it’s $15. Yep, FIFTEEN BUCKS! True, it doesn’t have a usb connection on it but if you’ve got the tx/rx doohicky then you don’t need that anyway, right?…
Invasion of the Boarduinos and their small tx/rx doohicky sidekicks
Lady Ada over at Adafruit has boarduinos in stock. These are arduino-style microcontrollers that are set up to fit on breadboards. This solves one of the pin spacing problems on the digital i/o side of the original arduino board and…