SudoGlove goes BOOM!
Our Exhibit at BOOM 2011 BOOM = Bits on our Minds. It’s an annual event hosted at Cornell University by the faculty of Computing and Information Science. It’s a really awesome event, and every year I look forward to attending and checking out the dozens of amazing projects that students[…]
Hacker Highlights: Easton’s Animatronic Hand
[Easton LaChappelle] first got in touch with me last year when he started to work on this project. I thought it was great idea, and considering that he was a freshman in high school, I was very impressed by his enthusiasm to learn about electronics, wireless communications, etc. I gave him[…]
Hacker Highlights: Steven’s Temperature Display
Open Source saves the day once again! Working off the Arduino+I2C+Processing powered temperature display that I crafted in my 7th Arduino Tutorial, [Steven Dayton] has crafted a beautiful Processing Sketch that puts mine to shame. He created the illustration using InkScape 0.48, and has included 3 variations of the background[…]
Confronting Energy Demand Using Renewables
This is a cross-post from the original post that I made on my element14 Blog on 3/20/2011 In my last blog post I talked about how we can define sustainability, and the broader implications of “going green” that often go unexplored. As I stressed in that post, devising new, more[…]
Can Sustainability be Defined?
This is a cross-post from the original post that I made on my element14 Blog on 3/14/2011 Sustainability is a loaded topic. Nobody really knows what it means – there are definitions, ideas, and opinions, but as far as I can tell, there is no single way to identify what[…]
Tutorial 10 for Arduino: Interrupts + Debouncing
This video was featured on Hackaday.com on 3/8/2011 This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 Interrupts are an extremely useful, yet often feared element of microprocessors. Interrupts allow you to run a program, while still being able to react to asynchronous input from the outside world. On[…]
Tutorial 9 for Arduino: Wireless Communication
This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 This week, we go wireless! We’ll be using a set of arduino Unos, XBee shields, and XBee Transceivers that will create a Personal Area Network (PAN) for wireless serial communication. By the end of the episode, we will be[…]
Tutorial 8 for Arduino: SPI Interfaces
This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 In this week’s arduino tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at SPI device control using the arduino. Specifically, we’re going to be using the Analog Devices 5204 Digital Potentiometer to control the brightness of several LEDs. Enjoy the video![…]
Arduino Contest Results!
The recent arduino contest that I ran with element14 has come to a close, and I’m very excited to announce the winners. Every last one of the submissions was extremely impressive, and I would highly recommend that you go check out all of the them on the element14 arduino video[…]
Tutorial 7 for Arduino: I2C and Processing
This tutorial was featured on the official Arduino blog on 3/9/2011 As promised, this week brings another communications tutorial! In this video, we’ll use both the serial and processing knowledge that we gained last week, plus an I2C enabled temperature-sensing IC. We’ll use processing to generate a pretty room temperature[…]