Andrew Rossignol decided to implement a window manager to run on an ATmega1284p micro-controller using the uVGA-II VGA controller.
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Monday April 29th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 1 Comment
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: Electronics, Arduino, Open Source Hardware, Raspberry Pi | 57 Comments
Learn how to easily transfer a design onto perfboard to create a professional looking and easy to follow circuit layout. You need little more than your circuit design, a laser...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 8th, 2013 8:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 5 Comments
We've seen a lot of drinkbots here on MAKE in nearly every configuration. However, I don't think I've ever seen one as polished and elegant as Dave Zucker's project, called...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday April 1st, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Robotics | 2 Comments
How cool would it be to see through someone else’s eyes, or to sense how fast they’re breathing or how loud their location might be? We can’t really do that...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday March 25th, 2013 6:00 AM
I love talking to people about Raspberry Pi, but quite often I hear people say, “I just bought a Raspberry Pi and I don’t know what to do with it!”...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday March 18th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Raspberry Pi | 21 Comments
Italian maker and sound producer Giuseppe Acito built this robot percussion band by combining LEGO Bionicle bots, an Arduino Uno, and an iPad MIDI sequencer app.
Posted by Nick Normal | Monday March 11th, 2013 10:29 AM
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | 7 Comments
Last June, the LVL1 hackerspace in Louisville, KY, held a 24-hour hackathon, where several teams stayed up all night, competing with each other to use an Arduino, a breadboard, as...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday March 4th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Hackerspaces, Electronics | 1 Comment
When the Microsoft Kinect game controller came onto the scene in 2010, the maker community immediately saw its potential as an input device for 3D scanning, gestural input, and spacial...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday February 25th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 10 Comments
Pulling a rabbit out of a hat is a neat trick. But how about wowing crowds of kids with an old suitcase that performs magic thanks to 18 synchronized, Arduino-powererd...
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Monday February 18th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Arduino, Fun & Games, Kids & Family | 2 Comments
The Monday Jolt is a new series about microcontrollers and electronics that appears in MAKE every Monday morning. HarvestGeek is an ambitious project to automate a greenhouse or other growing...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday February 11th, 2013 7:00 AM
Categories: Crowdfunding, Gardening, Open Source Hardware | No Comments
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