Over the last few months there have been a sudden rush of new micro-controller boards onto the market. A lot of that is down to Kickstarter and the appearance of...
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Monday June 10th, 2013 4:02 PM
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile, Electronics, Raspberry Pi | 26 Comments
My senior design team at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a powered upper body exoskeleton for use in physical therapy and assistive mobility applications. We've named the suit Titan...
Posted by Nick McGill | Saturday May 4th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 4 Comments
CircuitCo’s Motor Cape with NXT allows you to control up to 8 Mindstorms motors with a BeagleBone microcontroller. Alas, the board doesn’t accept data from sensors or from the encoders...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday April 23rd, 2013 8:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Electronics | No Comments
At half the price and with more power, this is more than a mere revision.
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday April 22nd, 2013 2:36 PM
Categories: Electronics | 3 Comments
I came across an excellent bit of wizardry by Rasmus Andersson called PeerTalk. It's a Objective-C library allowing you to communicate between your iPhone and your Mac over the USB...
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Monday April 22nd, 2013 9:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Raspberry Pi | No Comments
The BeagleBone is the perhaps the least known of these platforms, but an incredibly capable board worthy of consideration for many projects. It is a powerful Linux computer that fits...
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Monday April 15th, 2013 9:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, Open Source Hardware, Raspberry Pi | 59 Comments
The folks at Beagleboard.org are teasing us with a sneak peek of the newest version the of the BeagleBone, their embedded Linux development board. According to the post on their...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday February 20th, 2013 1:24 PM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
With the proliferation of single-board computers and the various flavors that they come in, it can be a bit daunting to a newcomer. Added to the vast array of programmable...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Friday February 1st, 2013 9:31 AM
Categories: Electronics | 2 Comments
With all the microcontrollers and single board computers on the market, sometimes it's hard to see all your options. That's why we made up this quick reference sheet for the...
Posted by Michael Castor | Thursday January 31st, 2013 1:30 PM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics, Raspberry Pi | 22 Comments
Have you been wanting to get into embedded Linux platform BeagleBone but not sure where to start? Our own Matt Richardson has a great Skill Builder piece in MAKE Volume...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Thursday January 17th, 2013 12:25 PM
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
Our maker this week is Matt Richardson. Matt's a video producer, a writer, a maker of things, a technology consultant, and a student at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Tuesday December 11th, 2012 5:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Makers, Raspberry Pi | 1 Comment
My friend Sean McIntyre and his collaborator Reid Bingham created Public Constructions, a light installation that borrows its aesthetic from construction barricades and warning lights. The tech behind it is...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Sunday December 9th, 2012 6:18 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics | No Comments
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