Nick Bilton

I would love to make one of these for my house. A gigantic LED that is actually built using 12 real LED’s for the light and are a 20 to 1 scale. These LED’s were designed and built by Kei…

I just received an email about ponoko.com. What is it you ask? I had a hard time trying to figure that out myself at first, but after toiling through the site to find the FAQ, I found out that it…

I’m currently exploring adding an accelerometer to a project I am working on. The most difficult part so far is figuring out how much tilt you should allow before executing an action. Accelerometers can be extremely sensitive, which is great…

I found this cool site with lots of Wii and Atmel AVR controller hacks called Wind Meadow. There isn’t really much info on who runs it, other than some posts by ‘Chad’, but there are some great tutorials. Out of…

These guys made a punching bag out of homemade sensors. They took pieces of wire mesh and soldered them together with some foam in between to create pressure sensitive foam. It’s all hooked up to the Arduino in a matrix…

October 11-13 next week is the 11th ISWC (International Symposium on Wearable Computers). This year it’s being held in Boston and they have some great tutorials scheduled including Building Soft Computers: 1. Materials, Techniques, and Tools. 2. Introduction to Designing…

When it comes to micro controllers most of us at NYC Resistor really love the Arduino—it’s fun, CHEAP, easy to use and it’s all the rage these days. So, when we found out about the new LilyPads ($19.95 from Sparkfun),…