Our friends at PubNub recently joined forces with us at CES 2015 to launch full SDK support for our entire lineup of MCU, MPU, and wireless SoC platforms. As the team reveals, Atmel developers will now have access to PubNub’s secure publish/subscribe messaging with guaranteed ¼ second latencies across PubNub’s 14 global points-of-presence. PubNub delivers secure communication through firewalls, […]
There’s music making and then there’s making music. From gloves that play tunes to modded printers that blare songs, Makers have proven that just about anything — and we mean everything — can be transformed into sound. And well, as you can tell from our #ThrowbackThursday chippy takes on ‘90s hits, we love music. Not to mention, a […]
It seems like Makers are able to hack everything these days, from disk drives to dot-matrix printers, to give once-ordinary devices some symphonic superpowers. And, while 3D printers have been used to create one’s own Imperial Army of miniature stormtroopers, did you know that the same machine could also play their theme song? That’s right. The team at Zero Innovations has successfully rigged a 3D […]
If you’ve ever worked on a DIY project out in the garage during the summer months, then surely you’ve experienced a thunderstorm at one point or another. And, during that time, it is likely you’ve lost power — not a desirable thing when starting a 3D printing project, unless you’re hooked up to battery backup. Two years ago, Italian […]
While this may not be the first time both robotics and 3D printing came together to bring an idea to life, it is surely amongst the most incredible. Maker Brian Matthews — who runs the website Flapping Sprocket — recently created a 3D-printed, robotic parrot powered by an Arduino Mega (ATmega1280). Had the project been feathered, it could’ve […]
A Maker and modder by the name of Capricorn1 has added a rockin’ visual dimension to his already impressive musical skills by using a piano’s MIDI output to drive Edison bulbs. Capricorn1 hung the bulbs from a rod of electrical conduit pipe, while threading the wires to a DB25 connector. The lights were controlled by an Arduino Mega […]
Are you excited? We sure are! Atmel is getting ready to take center stage at the 5th Annual World Maker Faire 2014 in New York City on September 20th and 21st. Undoubtedly, this year will be amazing as an expected 750+ Makers and 85,000+ attendees head to the New York Hall of Science to see the latest DIY […]
Program writers and developers spend countless hours creating code used to build computer software, sites and applications we may take for granted. Celebrated annually on the 256th day of the year — hexadecimal 100th, or the 28th — Programmers’ Day commemorates the hard work of these tech-savvy individuals. Why 256 you ask? It represents the number of distinct values in […]
This robot may not look all that intimidating at first glance, but beware — is is as resilient as they come. A group from Harvard University’s Whiteside Research Group has unleashed their latest indestructible design upon the world: pneumatically-powered, fully-untethered mobile soft robot. In other words, a quadruped that can stand up and walk away from its designers. In […]
Last week, our friends at Infinity Aerospace announced the complete open-sourcing of ArduLab, an ATmega2560-powered platform that enables streamlined NASA-approved experimentation to the critical mass. Previously costing space researchers, students and experimenters anywhere between $2,000 and $3,500 per kit, the low-cost, plug-n-play electronics platform allows anyone to now devise and launch an out-of-the-box, space-certifiable experiment. As previously discussed on Bits & Pieces, […]
