Samtec is a company that manufactures high-quality electronic connectors. Laudable to many, doubtless a bit dry to some. Therefore, possibly to spice things up, they selected a tiger as their mascot. Tigers are exciting! However maybe the sizzle of a big cat wasn’t enough, or perhaps electronic connectors needed something more or just possibly some […]
Wow, it’s official. ThinkGeek just launched our new Botanicalls Kits online in their store and newsletter. We might do the trifecta by getting into their printed catalog so check your mailbox daily. Gizmodo, Wired News and a bunch of other blogs covered the launch, but the real fun is making your own, so get on ThinkGeek and buy yourself
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Adafruit is selling the new Botanicalls Kits, and there’s a lovely post from Lady Ada herself about the update. We’re thrilled to have such staunch supporters and to be in the mix with so many other groovy kits. So please, switch that TV off. It’s time to tune in to your potted pals with a brand-new Botanicalls
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Kate Hartman and I will be teaching a hot new class in Wireless Wearables using the LilyPad XBee. It is offered through downtown Brooklyn’s hacker space, NYC Resistor on Sunday, December 14th from 2-6 p.m. The price of the class includes your own brand-new LilyPad XBee board, an XBee radio and all needed soft circuit
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Wearable radios are coming for your clothes! The LilyPad XBee sew-on ZigBee boards just headed out for manufacture. We finished testing the final green prototype version, nudged in a few improvements and about four weeks from now they’ll be commercially available. Pricing and source to be announced when the boards go live. For now, we
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The November 2008 issue of Wired Magazine just hit the stands. It features an article by Clive Thompson about open-source hardware that includes Botanicalls, with a picture of our new Botanicalls Kit. The article focuses on Arduino with great quotes from our friends at NYCResistor, where I’ll be co-teaching a class later this year. Look
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Recently created a page in the projects area where I can post simple Arduino functions that I frequently reuse. There’s my standby for blinking a light along with code for buzzing a buzzer, smoothing some output over time, having an LED blink out a version number and a modification of the map() function that handles
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I gave a talk on Sociable Objects yesterday at Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium. to show all the great work around socially active physical computing at ITP. There was a live feed of the conference on O’Reilly Radar, but of course that’s done now so we’ll have to wait for Microsoft Research to publish talks. In
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The EAGLE Layout Editor is a great way to design custom printed circuit boards for Arduino-based electronics projects. However, while Arduino uses the ATMEGA168 and ATMEGA8 microcontrollers from Atmel, the EAGLE libraries I’ve found online don’t use Arduino’s simplified pin labeling. Therefore, I’ve created a custom Arduino-AVR library for EAGLE with the proper Arduino pin
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Botanicalls, our project that gives plants the ability to make phone calls and send text messages, is launching a new project for the streets. Botanicalls: A Walking Tour Led by the Plants of Manhattan is happening this Thursday, September 11 through Sunday, September 14 beginning at The Center for Architecture on LaGuardia Street as a
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