What's a spacebucket? That's how this all got started. I've never been all that interested in growing anything. My co-workers talk about what seeds they are ordering for this season and how they are going to keep the critters out of the garden...
NEW GUIDE: MQTT, Adafruit.IO & You! The Internet of Things! The Internet of Things! THE INTERNET OF THINGS! OK now that I’ve got your attention, lets talk about this INTERNET OF THINGS (I… Source: NEW GUIDE: MQTT, Adafruit.IO & You! « Adafruit...
Source: Flight Log
If you need graph paper print this. You're welcome. Source: Free Online Graph Paper / Square Dots
Yeah I've been on an analog tools kick lately. I really liked the look of the Hobonichi Techo daily journal. This notebook is basically a Techo A5 but with lined paper. 480 pages of Tomoe River paper! Source: Nanami Paper Seven Seas Writer Review...
Source: Moon Camera Idea Journal Large — doane paper
Read about this today in Electronics Weekly. I have never heard of this company before which has IP for MIPS processors and communications chips. Seems like something worth checking out. Source: A new Creator is coming soon! - Imagination Blog
Every once and awhile I like to checkout current web technologies. It reminds me of installing different linux distros when I was a kid and seeing how they worked. Except now the cast off PC that I could mess with is the cloud. A few years ago I...
...and make scooters cyberpunk
Tinito writes, ” I’m attending the Open Hardware Summit 2014 in Rome, and I wanted to share a few moments of it. Not actually a “live coverage” due to connectivity issues..” David Cuartielles talking about the importance of people for … Read...
The best projects have a great story behind them, and the Apollo from Carbon Origins is no exception. A few years ago, the people at Carbon Origins were in school, working on a high power rocketry project. Rocketry, of course, requires a ton of...
A few years ago, every booth at a Maker Faire had a 3D printer. It didn’t matter if 3D printing was only tangental to the business, or even if the printer worked. 3D printers have finally jumped the shark, and there’s going to be an awesome t-shirt to …
i thought i’d start out with this hack while we’re in beta, since it was one of the first ones that really got me interested in the way phones worked and how many consumer electronics can be used for new and educational things. a “red box” was a …
Bre Pettis will be leaving his position as the CEO of MakerBot in order to lead up a new division at the parent company, Stratasys, called “The Innovation Workshop.” Jennifer Lawton, who has been with the company since 2011, will be stepping into...
I've always tried to keep my eye on the developments in technology coming out of the DIY Drone community. Over the weekend I decided to dive in and survey what the state of the art is right now. Hak5 Season 16 has had some awesome episodes...
Wanted to get a bit of gaming on with my new Windows 8.1 install. Turns out installing the driver for the wireless 360 controller is quite the feat. You have to manually select the driver using the Have Disk option in the Update Driver wizard....
There is some well deserved excitement around a speedreading tech startup called Spritz. I stumbled upon an open source clone for Android. Check it out.
I'm writing a technical manual on cheap SDR for a class. I had some fun tonight monitoring pager traffic from the surrounding hospitals and security systems that still use alphanumeric pager protocols. Purely for educational purposes of course.
Thanks to Pololu I was able to place an order for a couple of new Arduino Leonardos. Excited to get these in and start playing. I'm also thinking that by prototyping things with these boards I may be able to move a project to a custom layout a...
I can't lie I was pretty excited to see the preview video for this new mini packbot by iRobot. I had seen some renderings more than a year ago and thought it would be a really cool little bot. So after seeing this the other day I searched out for …
So every now and then I get really obsessive over something and within months to a year I notice that my interest is getting some attention from other people too. Now I don't know if this is some sort of collective consciousness syndrome or what...
The words said by a burly lumberjack of a man as he shakes my hand. In middle school I took a few courses in the evenings with quite similar looking men both teaching and attending, not a single person there within 20 years of my own age. The...
One of the reasons I don't write blog entries as often as I would like is that I have a particular type of personality. One that chooses it's own fixations whenever it pleases. I live a life of periodic obsessions some for weeks some for months....
I'm very excited about this first shot of the new Arduino MEGA. It is built around an ATMEGA1280 and looks like it has some pretty hefty specs. It has a completely new I/O layout so it does not look like it will be compatible with existing...
I completed my Valentines day gift and thought I would share. Mariessa had an idea about the gift she wanted "LED Flowers" were the request. Simple on off powered LED Flowers just wouldn't do for me however. So I put together a vase with 6...
All three Luxeon I LED's running and under Arduino control. These things are beasts I tell you! Hardware It's taken me a while to get around to building this electrical prototype but it seems to be working like a charm. Right now there are three...
Matt over at Liquidware has released a wonderful looking Arduino compatible board called the Illuminato. It is based around an Atmega645, has 42 I/O pins, and has twice the code space. I really like the artistic approach to the board design. All...
There might not be anything I want more in this world at this very moment then 10 multi-colored Arduino's under my Christmas tree. I have a feeling I'm one out of not to many who would feel the same. Smart Projects has made a limited run of these...
Funnel IO is a new board that is being sold through Sparkfun. This board has some pretty promising features including an XBee socket and a Lithium Polymer battery charging circuit. The board is set up so that you can program it wirelessly through...
I've been working on getting a driver for a Philips Lumileds Luxeon I high powered LED up and running. I tried a few designs with no success before using National's LM3404. I came across a really nice Evaluation Board that was just a bare PCB so...
BlinkM MaxM is a higher power version of ThingM's BlinkM. It comes in a two part form factor a top card with emitters (apparently 15 individual LED cores worth) and a bottom card for power and control. It has the same I2C connections for digital...
Hi All! Thanks for visiting General I/O. My name is Christian I have been an electronics hobbyist for many years. My interests cover a range of topics including electronic projects and the design process, open source hardware and a host of other...