Twitter has probably been the hottest growing social networking/microblogging service this year hands-down. Needless to say, its uses are endless and great for the DIY community for tinkerers, makers and alike.
Without further due, I announce Lady Ada’s new Tweet-A-Watt ...
Here’s a nice little circuit diagram for all those hardcore DIYers if you are trying to build a dual fan controller using an ATtiny45 although I’d never use this thing, I’d rather use a CUBLOC.
Over the course of a weekend, I cobbled together some leftover rob ...
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I was at my local Dollar Store the other day and when I saw this Heart shaped Touch Light, I had to hac ...
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Here’s a preview of our USB Portal Project we will be showcasing at Maker Faire 2007.
It’s basically a BASIC programmable USB device so you can connect embedded devices easily to ...
Okay, I’ve finally been able to stay away from the computer thanks to my girlfriend. But we are back for some more hacks and DIYs.
Check out these cool solar lawnmower robots and mop robot if you don’t want to spend $200 on a Roomba. You could probably make these ...
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Check out Bre’s new video on Basic Stamp howto with Joe Grand. He’s also got some pdfs with instructions.
Basic Stamp is a programmable embedded computer that you can program in BASIC language. You can also refer to ...
Check out this Ipod Serial converter module from Sparkfun. You can now communicate to your iPods with a microcontroller such as Arduino, CUBLOC or Make controller.
They even have a sample VB program for you to work with. This would be great for future do-it-yourself projects! ...
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For this weekend, we will show you how to make an ethernet controlled color organ that can be applied for some kind of stage lighting.
We will be using the party light we made and simply plugin the MaxPORT module to the serial por ...
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Here’s an update of controlling 3 stepper motors using a CUBLOC CB280 module. Although you can move the motors simultaneously, there are a lot of applications you can use it for. Sorry about the video, my video camera ne ...
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We’ve been messing around with some industrial stepper motors at work. These Xylotex stepper motors are pretty cool.
We have an example here for interfacing with some CUBLOC modules.
We got the 3-axis stepper kit so we will ...
