Arduino Day 2015
First Drone AIR show!
Choreographed drone acrobatics! http://air2015.nl
Minutes from Feb 7 meeting
Before our regular club gathering on a fairly warmish winter evening, poozr provided barbecue and sides (thanks poozr!) and all settled in well fed for the discussion. The meeting opened with a moment of silence for the individual Radio Shack stores already lost. We had lost our local independent Radio Shack last year, a central […]
FEB 21 – 6pm Next Arduino Meeting
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Arduino v 1.6 is available!
From Arduino.cc “After almost two years “in the making” we’re thrilled to announce the availability of the Arduino IDE 1.6.0. The latest version of the development environment used by millions of people across the globe brings about a lot of improvements. Since the day we started developing the first 1.5 version we have received a lot of […]
RadioShack Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Will Sell Up to 2,400 Stores List of proposed stores to close here. Thanks N8! Story by the Associated Press; curated by Oliver Darcy. — NEW YORK (AP) — Struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it will sell up to 2,400 stores. The Fort Worth, Texas company […]
New Electric Imp! from Sparkfun
Description: We know what you’re thinking, “What’s the big deal? Looks like an SD card…” Well this is no SD card! The Electric Imp is a WiFi enabled development platform powered by a Cortex-M3 processor core. “Really?” Yup. In essence, the Imp provides an easy, integrated way to connect almost any hardware device both to other […]
3D Printed Sculptures Look Alive When Spun Under A Strobe Light
This series of 3D printed sculptures was designed in such a way that the appendages match Fibonacci’s Sequence, a mathematical sequence that manifests naturally in objects like sunflowers and pinecones. When the sculptures are spun at just the right frequency under a strobe light, a rather magical effect occurs: the sculptures seem to be animated […]
Bits from Saturday’s meeting
As everyone began to arrive, we discovered that Professor Mayhem had spent the day converting a pile of empty boxes into an electric drum kit. Some piezos, an arduino, an old casio keyboard, boxes, pencils for drum sticks and some code and off we go. The build plus the definition of MIDI and how it […]
Young people are ‘lost generation’ who can no longer fix gadgets, warns professor
From “The Telegraph” UK “All of these things in our home do seem to work most of the time and because they don’t break we just get used to them. They have almost become like Black Boxes which never die. And when they do we throw them away and buy something new. “But there is […]
