A few months ago, we introduced the SheevaPlug, a 1.2GHz ARM processor with 512Mb of RAM, 2 usb ports, an ethernet port, and an SD card slot. in that article, we asked: “What would you make with one?”. We received tons of responses, 118 comments and counting. scientific American had a similar idea and asked […]

Projector bulbs can be extremely costly to replace. in some cases it’s much more expense effective to just purchase a whole new projector instead of a new bulb. [Shawn] just recently discovered a good offer on an ‘as is’ Epson EMP-S4 on eBay as well as chose to take a chance. He presumed it most […]

think of a single chip able to interface with your Ethernet, USB, and serial devices, turn those connections into wireless radio signals with miles of range, able operate off a single AA battery, and costs less than $2. That’s the guarantee of the Weightless special interest group that wants to put several hopefully not vaporware radio […]

dunk sent his house made Radio manage system. It is built from a Playstation 2 controller, an Atmega 2561, microcontroller, some RF modules as well as different servos as well as motors. It seems to work quite well. You can get all the schematics as well as source code on his site. a number of […]

advancement has been progessing rather well on [Matlo’s] PlayStation 3 controller spoofing project. This is a bundle that enables you to determine a PC as a PS3 controller. We understand what you’re thinking: why would you want to do that? When we originally looked in on the job about a year back we discussed that […]

[Craig] sent in a link to this project which manages to implement color tracking on an 8-bit microcontroller at 60 frames per second. That’s some pretty incredible performance, but we’re also not talking about using a hobby-grade microcontroller. The C8051F360 is an ARM microcontroller with 100 MIPS throughput and with a system clock that can […]

Whether you like it or not, every second that passes brings you one step closer to your own demise. It’s not a comforting topic to dwell upon, but it’s reality. This art installation entitled ‘Memento Mori’ is a haunting pointer of just that. even with all the advanced technology we have today, we still have […]