There are many ways of putting real world data to webserver. You can use third party services like cosm. But if you do like to keep everything under your control then do it simple way.
Published: May 7th, 2013
Fireflies are interesting creatures that glow in dark due to biochemical reactions. They come in special season time and stay for a really short time period (probably while mating).
Published: April 29th, 2013
It may seem that playing videos with sound using ARM Cortex microcontroller is a tricky, but it seems possible using few smart techniques. Vinod has been playing with video playback some time.
Published: April 29th, 2013
It seems that Raspberry Pi continuously is loosing the cheapest Linux board positions. After BeagleBoard black has been announced, you may thing twice before purchasing your next or first Linux based development board.
Published: April 29th, 2013
Wrist watch first of all is an accessory which is always with you. So you may want it to be unique, convenient, useful and of course hackable/programmable.
Published: April 29th, 2013
BLDC (BrusheLess Direct Current) motors are used in many areas. Few that come in to the head are PC hard drive drum spinners, RF flying models like quadcopters, robots.
Published: April 29th, 2013
Doesnt look all that comfortable but this Keyboard Chair sure is unique. I am curious where all the keyboards came from? I hope they were salvaged but they were probably purchased for this sculpture.
Published: April 25th, 2013
These Rave Shade LED Glasses look like a ton of fun. They are Arduino based and use 74HC595 shift registers to light all the LEDs. At first I though it was a silly design since with a PCB sitting on your face you would not be able to see anything.
Published: April 23rd, 2013
You may have seen these bubble lamps on some old ornamental items such as jukeboxes. It uses methylene chloride which boils at a low temperature. The effect shows a bubble that forms at the bottom next to the heat source and as it rises the bubble gets smaller and smaller until it simply disappears.
Published: April 23rd, 2013
It sucks when you have a perfectly good piece of hardware that mechanically functions but the controller dies. This is exactly what happened to Davide Gironi from Milan Italia when his dehumidifier stop working.
Published: April 23rd, 2013