All-original DIY electronics kits - Adafruit Industries is a New York City based company that sells kits and parts for original, open source hardware electronics projects featured on www.adafruit.com as well as other cool open source tronix' that we think are interesting and well-made.
Website:
http://www.adafruit.com
 Adafruit blog
| Report |
Open Hardware camp 4th of December 2009
26 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
|
There is an open hardware camp in London in a few weeks (Bar camp style)… If any Adafruit friends/customers attend, post up how it was in the comments or send us a note!
OpenBusiness is planning for 40Fires in partnership with Nesta a conference on Open Hardware on the 4th of December. The conference is an opportunity to edcuate engineers, tinkerers and designers alike on Open Hardware, a growing frontier in the field of innovation. It is also a platform for experts of Open Hardware to exchange ideas and solutions to further improve upon the workings of Open Hardware. Open Hardware works under the same framework as Open Source Software. The design is open the the public, where a virtual community of contributors could modify or build upon the existing design. Some existing projects will be showcased throughout the conference to give a basic gist of how Open Hardware functions.
Read more >>
|
Peggy 2LE - Open source LED panel
25 Nov 2009, 6:05 am
|
|
|
GPS datalogging shield for Arduino 1.1 documentation is up!
25 Nov 2009, 12:00 am
|
GPS shield & data-logger 1.1 documentation is up! Would you like to use your Arduino to create geo-locative art? Or make a custom GPS device that can log sensor data along with the precise time and location? Perhaps you’re looking to make a tracker, or want to make your own geocaching hardware. You are in luck! Here is my design for a Arduino shield that is perfect for any sort of project or artpiece that requires GPS precision time or location data. This shield supports any of four popular GPS modules and stores data on a standard DOS-formatted SD flash memory card. Simply plug it into your computer when you’ve finished your data capture and the plain text files are ready for importing into Google Earth, GPSvisualizer, or a spreadsheet.
- Power consumption: 5V @ ~70mA (less if power-saving methods are used)
- Approximate run times: 3 hours on a 9V battery and up to 12 hours with a MintyBoost (I’m still in the process of getting real data)
- Weight of shield, card, suggested GPS module, and Arduino: 2.6 oz / 75g
- Included example sketches show how to parse NMEA sentences, and log data to a text file on card
Read more >>
|
Visualizing Commodore 64 memory in real-time…
24 Nov 2009, 10:00 pm
|
Wow, this is neat…
After the first public preview of ICU64, the hacking tool that provides real-time view and edit of the C64 internals, here is the first public version: ICU64 / Frodo Redpill. You can now experience the hacker’s view of the Commodore 64!
Read more >>
|
UPS year-end holiday service schedule & Christmas delivery recommendations
24 Nov 2009, 4:52 pm
|
Here’s the UPS year-end holiday service schedule, if you’re going to need expedited shipping from Adafruit, this is a handy schedule!
Christmas delivery recommendations:
- Order by Dec 18th for UPS shipping (Ground, Overnight, 2nd and 3rd day)
- Order by Dec 14th for USPS Priority Mail / First class (USA)
- Order now for International First class and Express mail International (Worldwide)
We strongly suggest trackable shipping (UPS in the USA and Express mail international).
Read more >>
|
