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DIY Speaker Fabric

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www.youtube.com/watch Creating a simple speaker on fabric and other materials was demonstrated by Hannah Perner-Wilson in this video. In the best version shown in her experiments, she places wide traces of conductive tape on canvas, and places the mat...
- 1 Mar 2011
Tabletop robot vacuum, in name only

Eavesdropper

I saw this robot vacuum and thought, hey why not- I like being messy, this guy's has me covered. Set to buy it, I find that this little bot does not move on its own. I have to push it around? I pass. However, I like the concept I had when I fir...
- 1 Mar 2011
High school teacher develops new way of making a microfluidic chip

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Joe Childs, a Cambridge high school physics teacher has found an easy way to create a microfluidic chip. Dr. Anas Chalah, a Harvard University researcher, has used this inexpensive and simple method in his recently developed Microfluidics Lab f...
- 25 Jan 2011
‘Bottoms-up’ dispenser can fill 56 pints of beer in one minute….magnetically

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A magnet-powered method of pouring beer from the bottom up that works nine times faster than traditional methods, further proof that great ideas can be fueled by alcohol. The cup features a small hole at the bottom, covered up by a circular mag...
- 25 Jan 2011
New hack turns smartphone into covert listening device

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People have known for some time now that agents from various government agencies can listen in on your conversations even if your phone is turned off. A new smartphone hack, that includes both Android and iPhone, also lets people listen in on your co...
- 20 Jan 2011
Students use iPhone audio jack to create cheap sensors

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Students and faculty from the University of Michigan's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department have developed a small device they call ‘HiJack’ to make sensing peripherals easily accessible to those on a small budget. HiJack is a...
- 17 Jan 2011
OpenPicus IDE and Framework release

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OpenPicus, the italian open source platform made for wireless smart sensors and actuators, definitely takes off with a thick list of juicy news ready to be downloaded on 20th Jan 2011 (10am italian time) The open source platform is ...
- 16 Jan 2011
New electric yarn deemed washable

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Wearing a solar powered shirt or biosensing pants is cool and all, but cleaning the garments is not an easy process to contend with. However that problem just might be solved with a new type of ‘electronic yarn’ created by scientists from the Nanotec...
- 13 Jan 2011
Toothpaste can tell you the weather forecast. Toaster learns to drive.

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Actually toasters aren’t smart enough to drive yet, but they are getting there. Seriously though, well as serious as I can be with this information, David Carr of MIT’s Media Lab has created a prototype toothpaste dispenser, called ‘Tastes Like...
- 7 Jan 2011
Developing Software for the Atmel AVR with AVR-Eclipse

e14 Contributor

Developing software â or better firmware â for the Atmel AVR can be quite easy or quite complicated. A lot of people like to just use vi, some source files and a make file. Here at Interactive Matter we ar...
- 6 Oct 2010
Open Source Hardware Kit: LoL Shield

fustini

LEDs always seem to inspire clever multiplexing solutions. I got this kit recently and am looking forward to assembling it over the long weekend: http://jimmieprodgers.com/kits/lolshield/The LoL Shield is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the...
- 28 May 2010
Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 photos

fustini

I've created album of my photos from Maker Faire: http://picasaweb.google.com/pdp7pdp7/MakerFaire2010BayArea Everyone else that went please post too. There was no way to see everything so I am hoping to catchup on what I missed via ot...
- 28 May 2010
Reflections on Maker Faire 2010 - Bay Area

fustini

I had good fortune to attend Maker Faire 2010 - Bay Area - this past weekend in San Mateo. This was my first Maker Faire and an incredible experience beyond my wildest dreams. I had no idea the massive scale upon which the Faire operates....
- 28 May 2010
What is Open Source Hardware good for?

e14 Contributor

Recently there have been some discussion on open source hardware.Ladyada was referencing an article over at Electronics Weekly:AT A GLANCE Open-source hardware offers an advanced start on your design. Open-source s...
- 26 Sep 2009