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[Limpkin] decided to give the whole embedded business card thing a try. Here is his finished project, a low-profile mass storage business card that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Sure, the $6 price tag could score him a hundred paper cards, but those don't light up like this one does! The main components on the card include an AVR microcontroller, a flash memory chip, and an ESD protection … [Read more...]
Last weekend's Maker Faire wasn't only about the latest and greatest. Some of the groups there brought up the latest and greatest from earlier eras. InfoAge is a historical science and technology learning center based out of the former Camp Evans in Wall, New Jersey, and they really know how to put on a show using old technology. I made it to two booths at Maker Faire claimed by members or … [Read more...]
Making an octopus on a Reprap or Makerbot isn't that terribly hard. There were dozens of these octopuses at nearly every Maker Faire booth with a 3D printer. These octopuses have almost become a right of passage for new owners of 3D printers, and serves as a wonderful reference object on par with the Utah teapot and the Stanford bunny. [Sean Charlesworth] wasn't happy with any old octopus; no, … [Read more...]
Everyone's favorite Open Hardware store - Seeed Studio - was at Maker Faire this last weekend. They showed off a bunch of cool toys, oscilloscopes, Arduino shields and other hardware goodness, but one of the more interesting products was from their B Squares line. As [Colin] from Seeed showed us, each B Square is a small plastic enclosure about the size of a drink coaster. The corners of these … [Read more...]
We see a lot of quadcopters, and even the occasional octocopter around here. But this build does it with just two propellers. It's a tiltrotor build which allows the two upward-pointing propellers to tilt forward and backward. The real world equivalent of this UAV design that pops to mind is the V-22 Osprey. The motors are mounted on a beam running perpendicular to the direction of travel. … [Read more...]
It seems like tinkerers are always being tapped to build or repair exhibit hardware. This time around it's [Dino's] turn. He's been asked to alter a light bulb efficiency demo so that it includes an LED option. The idea here is that you crank a generator to power different types of light bulbs. There's an ammeter built in, but possibly the best feedback is knowing how hard you have to crank to … [Read more...]
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