Couch potatoes, you’ll love this. Maker Jayvis Vineet Gonsalves has created a device ideal for any lazy Sunday spent on the sofa. His Android-powered TV remote allows for voice recognition software to control your TV with little to no effort. This Maker’s Aergia (named after the Greek goddess of sloth) concept was devised for a situation […]
Writing for DesignNews, Rob Siegel notes that Arduino has come quite a long way since the very first boards hit the streets way back in 2005. According to Siegel, the open source, Atmel-powered lineup of boards is “showing up everywhere,” from consumer and industrial products to engineering toys for budding engineers. “Just look at the […]
A Maker by the name of Jason955 has designed an RFID-controlled garage door opener using an Atmel-based (ATmega328 MCU) Arduino board. As HackADay’s Rick Osgood reports, the Arduino acts as the brains of the operation while an off-the-shelf NFC/RFID reader module is tasked with reading the RFID tags. “To add new keys to the system, […]
Writing for the UK-based Guardian, Georgina Voss notes that hosting a Maker Faire in Shenzhen, which some describe as the “factory of the world,” makes quite a lot of sense. Indeed, Dale Dougherty, founder of MAKE Magazine and creator of Maker Faire, recently confirmed that the first official Maker Faire held in Shenzhen earlier this […]
TinkerBots is an Atmel-powered (ATmega328P) building set that enables Makers and hobbyists of all ages to easily create an endless number of toy robots that can be brought to life without wiring, soldering or programming. http://vimeo.com/91590326 Indeed, TinkerBots’ specialized “Power Brain” and kinetic modules twist and snap together with other TinkerBots pieces – and even LEGO […]
Kickstarter first opened its virtual doors on April 28, 2009. Since then, the wildly popular crowdfunding website has tracked over $1 billion in pledges from 5.9 million individuals who actively funded 59,000 creative projects. Unsurprisingly, quite a number of Atmel-powered Kickstarter projects have been successfully funded over the past year, including: MicroView MicroView is a […]
Writing for Forbes, TechShop CEO Mark Hatch confirms the rapidly growing Maker Movement is having a “surprising” impact in the United States and around the world. “Though a more complex topic, the Maker Movement can be reduced to this simple reality: it is democratizing making,” Hatch explained. “Sure, making includes simple electronics, quilting, all the […]
A group of DIY Makers based in Seattle say they plan on building a fleet of 1,000 autonomous vehicles – all equipped with Atmel-powered Arduino boards. Project Elcano, which kicked off in 2007, is the brainchild of electrical engineer Tyler Folsom. According to Popular Science, Folsom’s resume includes work on everything from NASA spacecraft to […]
My buddies Francis Lau and Wayne Yamaguchi read my recent article about the 12-bit ADCs in the new Atmel SAM D20 ARM chip. They both had some good tips. Francis has worked for a famous Silicon Valley brain-wave sensor company. He writes: I was trying to squeeze out more resolution out of a 10-bit adc […]
So after seeing Atmel in the parking lot, and a hexapod 3-D printer, a Geiger counter, a bike lite, and an art installation powered by Atmel, I should mention some of the cool Atmel technology that we had at the booth. Michael Koster brought a whole slew of Atmel devices all supporting the coming wave […]
