First of all check out the project above. It’s a camera that only takes your picture when you blink. There’s conductive thread fake eyelash action going on here! – Link We posted for help on finding sources for conductive thread…

Drat! I’m not at home with my stack of electronics catalogues, how am I going to order that electronics part I need? Once I get it, wouldn’t it also be great to have a datashet and can I get that…

Check out the mini drum kit with an arduino! Then check out the spooky arduino class he taught last year! – Link

Soh_cah_toa left a comment for me on flickr that pointed me to this active-belt. This is similar to the “I’m Lost” hacker jacket idea except that this doesn’t just do directing, it does gps! – Link

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…

People often complain about the number of i/o pins available on the arduino microcontroller. There is a very simple solution for this that anybody readily using microcontrollers has probably considered: a parallel to serial shift register. This is probably one…

I’ve been perusing Tom’s NYC places-to-get-hardware list. It’s good. Read it and memorize it or if someone wants to whip out some geo-ninja skills and map these all out, that would rule. – Link One thing I would add to…

I got a chance to go visit Hoeken’s lab tonight and turn a few screws on his reprap project. I’m totally inspired. That’s him above as the proud daddy of an breadboarded dc motor controller built on an arduino. Here…

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),…