Raspberry Pi is the most popular mini computer right now, but there are other options.
SolidRun sells two. The first is a sleek cube called the CuBox-i (pictured above). The second is a barebones board, the…
The Raspberry Pi is a handy tool, but it has some quirks. One quirk is that there is no internal clock with a battery backup (something most real PCs have). Instead, it syncs with online clocks…
About 25 years ago, pro-level audio recording technology was prohibitively expensive for home studios. Then, digital audio technology like the Alesis ADAT enabled working class musicians to produce high fidelity recordings. The fast development…
Labrigger previously mentioned this contest. All of the 173 projects are online for your perusal. See if any of them inspire you.
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As Labrigger mentioned earlier this week, ZappyLab is running a Kickstarter campaign to jump start their crowd-sourced protocol repository, Protocols.io.
Perhaps the most attractive reward they’re offering for pledging are the Black Russian Espresso…
This is exactly up the alley of what Labrigger is interested in supporting. There’s just one week left in their Kickstarter campaign. As of this writing, 300 people have contributed $30,000. With one final push this last week, they’ll meet their goal.
They want to crowd…
No wires- even for programming. And the battery can last “up to a year”. If you can wait until May 2014 to get your hands on one, here are the details:
The Arduino-compatible Bluetooth LightBlue Cortado is…
Wicked Lasers makes laser pointers. High quality, high power laser pointers that can be repurposed for other applications. In fact, some of their lasers should probably never be used as pointers (e.g., this 2 watt 445…
It tells time, and has a calendar, alarm, oscilloscope, waveform generator, logic analyzer, protocol sniffer, and a frequency counter.
There’s about a month to go on the Kickstarter campaign, if you want one.
The maker, Gabriel Anzziani, has a good track record. Here are some of his earlier devices:
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The Voltset devices plug into an Android phone and offer multimeter-type functions. The Mini Voltset measures voltage and continuity. The Mega Voltset adds resistance measurements.
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About a year ago Labrigger covered the Raspberry Pi, a single board computer. In some ways, it’s like a high-powered Arduino, but really, it’s a miniature PC. Albeit, a PC that uses an ARM processor,…
Open Electronics has a nice overview and comparison of Linux Development boards like the Raspberry Pi.
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Carnegie Mellon is a magical place for robotics, and their CMUcam, an open source hardware project for machine vision, has recently culminated in Pixy. This is a wildly funded Kickstarter project (funded at 400-500%…
4D Systems sells screens and touchscreens for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other systems. Importantly, the code is portable (mentioned in the video above), they have good support, and the hardware plugs right into the boards. It doesn’t get much easier than this. They have resellers…
