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And then Obi-wan said, "you were supposed to be the chosen one!" Yesterday, a little bird told us Makerbot will be moving to a closed source model for their newest printer. This was confirmed, and now [Zach Smith] a.k.a. [Hoeken] - creator of the RepRap Research Foundation and co-founder of Makerboth Industries is weighing in with his take on the situation. Hey! Free stuff! Remember … [Read more...]
For those of us old enough to remember the beginnings of the microcomputer revolution, we can look back fondly on 'the programming environment is the OS,' a ton of BASIC programs, and typing in small programs found in the backs of computer magazines. It's a whole new world now with cell phones and Linux computers the size of credit cards, but some companies still remember … [Read more...]
We received a tip from [Fabien] that Texas Instruments had posted a set of IDEs for the Stellaris Launchpad on their download page. At first we skipped right over the link, but then decided to take a look and see if things had changed any since the MSP430 Launchpad had been released. As we expected, there's really no help on this page if you're looking to develop for the hardware without using one … [Read more...]
The new crop of ARM Cortex M0/M3/M4 microcontrollers have a lot of interesting features for developers. In addition to supporting drag and drop programming via USB, the same hardware can also be used as a debugger. Setting breakpoints and inspecting memory at any point in the code is a wonderful feature, but not all the new ARM dev boards we've seen support this feature. The folks over on … [Read more...]
ST Microelectronics keeps kicking out development boards to show off their new ARM processor line. Yesterday they issued a press release announcing the STM32 F3 Discovery Board. As their naming scheme implies, this carries an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, but compared to the F0 Discovery board (which we loved) it's got several extra goodies built into it. We took a look at the F3 Discovery product … [Read more...]
On the continuing list of homebrew ARM dev boards we've seen over the past few months, [Squonk42]'s USBug is one of the best we've seen. Like many other ARM boards, it breaks out a member of the Cortex M0/M3 family into a 40-pin DIP, but unlike all the others, [Squonk] designed it so you can drag and drop code onto the microcontroller just like a USB thumb drive. [Squonk]'s trick relies on a … [Read more...]
[V0R73X], who is 17 has been working on a project, to build A robotic arm. This project started out as a challenge put forward from one of his school teachers to build a robotic arm for $200. [VoR73X] accepted, and the challenge began. He came up with a robotic arm that can be controlled from his mobile phone and other bluetooth enabled devices. He also designed it so that he can … [Read more...]
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