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In a positive twist on the usual publicity events that our administration has experimented with over the years, President [Obama] will be hosting a google+ hangout with some lucky people to discuss, well, whatever matters. It is nice to see the people running the country finally getting to grips with some technology. It is still scary to hear how many people making the laws about data still don't … [Read more...]
After reading about an initiative between NASA and Boeing to develop lights for the International Space Station [Rasathus] decided to give it a go at building his own. The project uses RGB pixels to build a circadian rhythm light installation. Without the normal rise and fall of the sun the sleep wake schedule for the astronauts can be pretty rough. This uses color and intensity of light in a … [Read more...]
There's a new Arduino in town, this time designed in conjunction with Adafruit. It's the Arduino Micro, a very neat little board designed for breadboard use. Ostensibly an upgrade of the long in the tooth Arduino Nano, the new Micro takes all the best features of the new Arduino Leonardo and shrinks them down to a convenient stick of gum-sized package. It's powered by the ATmega32u4 … [Read more...]
For this month's release of Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Linux distribution, [Limor], et al. decided to build a web-based IDE for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi WebIDE is a web server that runs on the Raspi. By connecting to your raspi in a web browser, you're able to create your own Python programs that are able to interact with the GPIO pins. All the code is stored in the cloud with the help … [Read more...]
[Limor Fried], the brains behind Adafruit is one of the five finalists for the Entrepreneur of 2012 award in Entrepreneur magazine. We've always been big fans of how she chooses to run her business. Adafruit supplies open source hardware and compiles tons of great tutorials on the pieces. Not only that but they have pushed very hard to build a community that shares information and encourages … [Read more...]
When Lego announced that they were going to do a series of "Lego for girls", many of us didn't get it. When we were kids(get off my lawn!), legos were completely asexual. At least, that's how my mind saw them, being a caucasian male. While the idea itself makes sense in marketing terms, the products they rolled out were stuck firmly in the same old gender roles. Pink abounds and flowers are … [Read more...]
Let's be honest, you're going to have trouble getting kids to play text-based adventure games these days. But this is one way to get them interested. This weekend you should get together with niece, nephew, son, or daughter and help them build their own hardware and program it with an adventure game. One last project before school's out and the weather's nice. This is [Dan's] shiny example of … [Read more...]
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