Becky Stern is up to some really cool stuff over at Adafruit. This GPS Dog Collar (as shown on her adorable dog, Olive) uses a a GPS sensor, OLED display, and Adafruit’s Atmega32u4 Breakout Board to track your pet’s progress towards a goal distance. Everything you need to know to make your own is beautifully organized in their new tutorial site, the Adafruit Learning System, which I really dig. Nice work on all fronts!
Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist, contributing editor for MAKE magazine, and co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. He's also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera (a camera which outputs a text description instead of a photo) and The Enough Already (a DIY celebrity-silencing device). Matt's work has been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art, The Rome International Photography Festival, Milan Design Week and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, and New York Magazine.
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Nintendo had a “Dog” mode for their game Personal Trainer: Walking for the DS a few years ago. I got it and used one of the pods and put the other on my dog. Downloading the results to my DS was actually pretty interesting. Theirs was Accelerometer paced instead of GPS, but it worked pretty well.
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