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Arduino Pong 1 Jul 2013 | 09:27 am
What is the first thing to do when you have video out on your microcontroller? Some say Tetris, other say Pong. I won’t lie – it’s unlikely your daughter will be giving up her Nintendo DS, and this i...
Fritzing Contest 28 Jun 2013 | 03:53 pm
Over at Fritzing you can win EUR 500 from your design. Create a give away PCB for our Fritzing-Kits and win 500 Euros cash ! It should be: interesting useful uncomplicated hyper-lightspeed Turn-...
Facial Recognition using RPi 19 Jun 2013 | 11:29 am
The Raspberry Pi blog just mentioned Pierre Raufast‘s experiments with OpenCV and the RPi camera module. He achieves facial recognition with multiple targets at ~8fps, which is kind of impressive give...
The Voyager Computer 18 Jun 2013 | 03:23 pm
I like both spacecrafts and old computers. Here is a quote about the Voyager computers from the 1970′s. It is worth to think about what you can do with very little. I suppose the peripherals where mor...
A desktop CNC 13 Jun 2013 | 11:23 am
As 3D printing becomes popularized, the opposite, milling (i.e. removing instead of adding material) is trying to reach the same tipping point. Over at kickstarter, the Othermill has achieved funding....
Rhombus-Tech 27 May 2013 | 10:09 am
Rhombus-Tech is a CIC company working on various hardwares for running open source software. They are involved in a number of interesting projects, one of them being the KDE tablet. Their site makes a...
ATX RasPi 20 May 2013 | 09:52 am
The people behind lowpowerlab has come up with a nice solution to switching your Raspeberry Pi on and off. Using a microcontroller and letting it communicate with the Pi over GPIO, the power supply is...
Machine Code for Beginners 17 May 2013 | 12:37 am
The great Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners by Lisa Watts and Mike Wharton from 1983 is available online. This book is a simple, step-by-step guide to learning to program in machine code. Mac...
Arduino from the Command Line 16 May 2013 | 11:07 am
Feeling limited by the Arduino IDE? What to avoid writing linked scripts by hand? Try Ino. Ino may replace Arduino IDE UI if you prefer to work with command line and an editor of your choice or if you...
Raspberry Pi Camera Available 14 May 2013 | 01:41 pm
The Raspberry Pi Foundation just announced the availability of the long awaited camera board. The camera boards are now available for order! You can buy one fromRS Components or from Premier Farnell/E...
