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reaDIYmate is about assembling your own wifi-connected gizmo in a few minutes.
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“Look around your house. Everything that has a proprietary embedded processor in it is a candidate for being reinvented with Open Hardware. That’s how the Internet of Things is going to finally become a reality.”
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Raspberry Pi is a 128meg, 700MHz ARM based Linux box in a USB stick with Ethernet and 1080p HDMI output.
“Following the example of the BBC Micro, we intend to launch both a Model A device (lacking the LAN9512, and with 128MB of RAM) at the $25 price point, and a Model B device (including the LAN9512, and with 256MB of RAM) for a $5-10 additional cost. We remain confident of shipping before the end of 2011”.
Alpha boards are now being manufactured.
(Thanks Carl)
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Cubelets are construction kits by Modular Robotics. By combining sensor, logic and actuator blocks, young kids can create simple reconfigurable robots that exhibit surprisingly complex behaviour.
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Graffiti Research Labs’ SVG2BVG uses custom computer vision software to detect graffiti tags, sending the ensuing shape to a diy laser cutter and outputting the tag as a stencil in realtime.
“The stencils are conveniently sized for the television screens in the Berlin U-Bahn system - allowing you to go all-city and create cheap, non-permanent, light-based graffiti in the comfort of your own transit system.”
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Fabrickit is a collection of wearable electronic modules or “bricks” that make it easy to construct simple or complex wearable projects. Bricks connect to each other with a flexible, 3-wire conductive fabric ribbon. The fabrickit bricks and ribbon approach streamlines the construction of wearable projects, making them more reliable, attractive and ready-to-wear.
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Matt Richardson shows us how to hack an old USB keyboard into a pedal for any sort of keyboard shortcut. This one was made for Google Reader, but you can make your pedal send any keystroke you’d like. Just think of the possibilities!
Alternatively, you could buy this lovely pre made USB button.
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Matt Jones talking at Citycamp 10 London about urban computing, vertigo, synecdoche, nearlynets, mujicompfrastructure and how people’s doorways or porches might be a good place to start.
I agree. I think the bottom up approach is almost certainly going to be the way forward unless we want to cause panic. We’ve already had a pretty horrendous top down attempt here in the UK with Chip and Bin.
Sidenote: While I was attempting to find the link for the word synecdoche without knowing how to spell it I stumbled across synectics - which is also great.
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The “What is a switch?” classroom project is a Tellart favorite – it is meant to demystify electronics for design students and artists by using low-cost materials and familiar design tools to explore the concept of an electrical connection. By abstracting electronics to the simple concept of “connected” or “not connected”, the project helps to expand their conception of designing with embedded electronics. What happens when you take the switch away from the wall, out of the plastic casing?
