Best writeup ever. LEDs are to hobby electronics what peppercorns are to cuisine: they can be sprinkled anywhere. Read the whole article here. – Link

Learn how to use shift registers as Dave explains his LED oscilloscope project at NYC Resistor’s bi-weekly Microcontroller Study Group. UPDATE: We’ve all gotten excited about this project, and Dave has agreed to open up his code and document everything,…

Looking for some good sensors for a project? Try the SensorWiki. It’s a great collection of different sensors. From Inclinometers, Rotary potentiometers, Force-sensitive resistors (FSR) and other kinds of ‘ometers’.

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…

Wired has a great post about Ann Smith, an artist who, as wired says; ‘transforms electronics and appliances destined for the dump into nifty gadgety animals’. Check out the post to see some of the pieces as stop motion animation.…

Above is an image from the ‘Diploma Project’ by André Huber and Roland Broennimann. They are students at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and Academy of Art and Design. They are working on a project called natebu (or…

I have an idea I want to try out involving sintering (melting) powdered plastic with a laser as an alternative to extruding plastic from a nozzle.  To do this, I need some sort of plastic, ideally ABS plastic that is…