The London-based MakieLab wants to take its customers back to a time when real toy making was a creative, hands-on “Geppetto” experience. Indeed, the MakieLab platform allows DIY Makers to design a doll from scratch, which is ultimately uploaded and 3D printed at MakieLab headquarters. Subsequently, they are painted, with eyelashes and other features carefully […]
Known as “FLORA,” Adafruit’s wearable electronics platform is built around Atmel’s Atmega32u4 MCU. The microcontroller boasts built-in USB support, eliminating the need for pesky special cables and extra parts. According to Adafruit’s Limor Fried, FLORA is extremely “beginner-friendly.” Indeed, the device is difficult to accidentally destroy by connecting a battery backwards, thanks to a polarized […]
Earlier this month, we gave props to a remarkably realistic DIY PIP-Boy (Personal Information Processor-Boy) made with a 3D printer. Today we’re taking a closer look at a Tardis Transformer which was designed using an open source RepRap 3D printer. “I originally only had Soundwave in mind when I was designing this. So all the […]
BrittLiv – a chemical and biological engineering student – has transformed a Nerf Vulcan into a sentry gun capable of automatically aiming and firing at targets. The azimuth and elevation mount for the gun is constructed out of plywood – with each axis controlled by a single servo attached to an Arduino Uno powered by […]
The BlinkyTape – powered by Atmel’s ATmega32U4 microprocessor – is a portable LED strip with 60 pixels and an integrated USB-programmable light processor. Additional key specs include 32KB Flash memory, 2.5KB RAM, 1KB EEPROM, a micro USB connector for power and data, as well as an on-board micro switch for interactive applications. Created by Matt Mets, […]
Analysts at Premier Farnell expect the use of open source hardware and software to increase among professional engineers and the growing Maker community in 2013. According to the results of a recent survey commissioned by element14, 56% of professional engineers are more likely to use open source hardware such as Arduino (powered by Atmel MCUs) […]
By: Gunter Fuchs Not considering how to actually do encryption or authentication, it is fairly simple for a native Latin speaker (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=authentic, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=crypto) to distinguish between the two. We authenticate something to prove to the receiver of the “something” that it actually came from us. We encrypt a message so nobody, including us, can read […]
By Eric Weddington, Marketing Manager, Open Source & Community Pinoccio is a new Open Source Hardware business, building “a complete ecosystem for the Internet of Things”. They recently completed a successful crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo to help them build their first product: A pocket-sized microcontroller board, with wireless networking, rechargeable LiPo battery, sensors, and the […]
