Monday, March 19, 2012

Video : Getting Started With the BeagleBone Microcontroller!

Matt Richardson, via Make Magazine's Youtube channel, has created a great "How To" video for the micro controller called the "BeagleBone".  


If you're interested in micro-controllers you've likely heard of the Arduino or Launchpad, the BeagleBone is a similar controller, except that the Beaglebone has its own version of linux embeded!  If you'd like to know more about the board you can go to beagleboard.org.  


Check out these videos from Matt:








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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

DIY : Fab Speakers - Out of Jars!

Maker David A. Mellis created a awesome speaker project called Fab speakers.  Over on his site you can see examples of the project, not yet a kit, and even download all the files to create your own set! 


Maker Sarah Pease did just that and she designed her own version, made out of mason and jelly jars!  Simply Amazing!  Check out Sarah's page here for her take on David's project.   




If you craft your own set, shoot me an email with a pic or two of the finished project and I'll include it in this post!  


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Monday, March 12, 2012

Makerbot TV S02E01 - A History Lesson

Looks like Season 2 of Makerbot TV is up and running.  Bre Pettis gives us a brief history lesson on the history of the how the makerbot came to be, as well as a small insight into the founding of Makerbot Industries.  


Again, i'm not sure if I'm going to follow every episode, but if a video is interesting I'll be sure to post it here.  I've detailed on previous posts, about the series and what I would like to see on Makerbot TV, hint, PROJECTS! PROJECTS! PROJECTS!  Well see if they decide to give us more substance this time around.  

Check out the video below:


  
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Video - Makerbot Replicator On Al Jazeera English!

Over at the Al Jazeera English they have a great 38 min video about the maker and open source movement around the world as well as interviews with both Dale Dougherty founder of Make Magazine and Bre Pettis one of the founders of Makerbot Industries.  


It's a great piece about how others are using the technology of 3D printing, and they even do a in studio print using a Makerbot Replicator!  


Checkout the entire video below.





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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Electronics Reference Sheet - Print Your Own!

Over at  www.akafugu.jp they put up a set of great electronics reference sheets for those of us in the hobbyist world.  LED's, resistor color codes, transistors, capacitors, etc.  There is also a sheet on various pin-outs of some of the most often used microelectronics chips sets such as the ATMega and ATTiny.  The reference sheets are in .png and .pdf formats. Head over and download a copy and print them out for your personal use today!



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Friday, March 2, 2012

Minestation - A Weather Station For Your Minecraft World

What do you get when you combine an Arduino shield and a love for the video game Minecraft? How about an awesome electronics build that will tell you how the weather is topside in your blocky world while you toil away in the depths of your elaborate labyrinth of mineshafts.  Its not often that a few of my hobbies overlap, unless its photography, as that tends to work its way into most everything I do, but this is pure genius.  


Over on the website www.radikaldesig.com (its in Spanish, and thanks to Google translate) they have the files for recreating your own, or you can eventually pick up one up once they get past the pre-alpha phase at minestation.me


Here is a nice video of it in action:



Hello Minestation! from minestation.me on Vimeo.



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