On day two Ian gave a presentation on manufacturing open hardware projects. Tayken helped field questions in Japanese. We’ll post a video tomorrow if it turns out. More photos of the Tokyo hackerspace booth and Dangerous Prototypes gang below the fold.
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Leonard Pirate at Make Tokyo Meeting 07
Yoshi Tsuboi’s Leonard Pirate is an AVR-based multi-protocol interface like the Bus Pirate. It uses an Atmega 32U4 with integrated USB. We recommended he check out the great work already done on the Bus Ninja project too. Pirates vs ninjas, get it? He also showed us an AVR MKII programmer clone he’s been working on, […]
Weird and wonderful at Make Tokyo Meeting 07
These vegetables are wired to cry with you touch them. The tone changes depending on the stroke, and you can almost play them like an instrument. One of the most strange and wonderful projects for sure. Check below for a roving human heart, DIY cotton candy, Maker manga, and more. More photos below the fold.
Video: ANIPOV bicycle POV at Make Tokyo Meeting 07
ANIPOV animated bicycle POV by Sun and Moon Labs at Make Tokyo Meeting 07. Check out the video after the break.
Tokyo hackerspace at Make Tokyo Meeting day 1
Tokyo hackerspace invited us to the Make Meeting and shared their space. They scored an extra large space with extra tables for the public soldering area. Anyone was welcome to come use this temporary hackerspace to assemble a kit or work on their projects. More photos from day 1 below the fold.
Video: Goo instrument at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07
The goo is actually an instrument. Poke and stretch it to make “music”. Check out the video after the break.
Electronics at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07
These LED displays and circuit boards are assembled entirely inside a bottle. Amazing soldering work! Below we’ve got lots of electronics goodness. An umbrella that turns rain into music, a force-feedback mouse, $13 DIY radiation detectors, bio-feedback jewelry, and more. Kalmar Antiques is where you can shop art deco rings online. If you’re looking for […]
Video: Remote control flying machines at #mtm07
During the Maker Meeting two dozen remote control flying machines made of wood, paper, and plastic buzzed and flapped overhead. There were UFOs, sailing ships, witches on broomsticks, and da Vinci-like flyers. We grabbed some of the tiny motors they used at Akihibara. More pictures and a short video below the fold.
Vehicles at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07
Vehicles at Make Tokyo Meeting 07. More photos below the fold.
Blinken lights at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07
Blinking lights at Make Tokyo Meeting 07. Sun and Moon Labs’ ANIPOV is a bicycle POV board with that plays animations, we’ll post a video later. Spinning fiber-optics, animated backpacks, and illuminated dresses below the break.
Music at Make Tokyo Meeting #mtm07
Music and instrument hacks at Make Tokyo Meeting 07. Check below for a nixie-based spectrum analyzer, laser guitars, and more.
Setup at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07
Usually we like to give an inside look at the Maker Faire the night before it opens, but setup was in the morning before it started so there wasn’t an opportunity. More photos below the fold.
#MTM07: Make Tokyo Meeting 07
This weekend was Make Tokyo Meeting 07, Tokyo’s Maker Faire. We were guests of tokyohackerspace. Today we’ll post some of our favorite projects from the Make Meeting. The projects were amazing! Later we’ll have a video and pictures of our trip to the Akihibara Electric Town market, and Sjaak’s visit to the weekly Tokyo hackerspace […]
NEW PROTOTYPE: Bus Pirate v4
Bus Pirate v3, and all previous Bus Pirates, are based on a chip with 64K of program space. Last year we stuffed so many features into the firmware that we used all the space. It was time for new hardware based on a new chip. We didn’t want to run out of space again soon, […]
Cadsoft EAGLE hobbyist license winners
Today we announce the winners of the Cadsoft Eagle hobbyist licenses. Eagle is really popular in open source hardware, and these licensees give you more space and features for your next project. The hobbyist license enables everything in the EAGLE Standard Edition (six signal layers and 160x100mm routing area) with all three modules (Layout+Schematic+Autorouter). There […]
New Dangerous Prototypes stickers arrive
A test printing of Dangerous Prototypes stickers just arrived. The first batch used Sven’s logo design on a standard 2×3″ vinyl sticker. There’s a lot of extra white space that could have been use for something but these were just a test. They turned out ok, so we’ll spring for die-cut stickers shaped like the […]
Soldering the Bus Pirate demo board v5
Watch us solder the Bus Pirate demo board v5. The simple process of making a demo board for the Bus Pirate turned out to be far more complicated then we expected. Previous versions used many different chips and turned out to be more expensive then the Bus Pirate itself. For version 5 Sjaak came up […]
#FreePCB via Twitter to 2 random RTs
Twitter syndication failed yesterday, so today is Twitter free PCB Wednesday. Every Tuesday we give away two coupons for the free PCB drawer via Twitter. This post was announced on Twitter, and in 24 hours we’ll send coupon codes to two random retweeters. Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three times a every week: Hate Twitter […]
Twitter plugin fail and new plugin test
On Monday the usually trusty WordPress Tweeter plugin that pushes posts to Twitter stopped working. It wasn’t obvious until yesterday when there were no replies, and lots of complaints, about free PCB Tuesday. WP Tweeter hasn’t been updated in a long time, so we found something fresher. This post will hopefully be syndicated by the […]
Energy Micro EFM32 low-power development kit giveaway
A few weeks ago we posted Pedantite and Viswesr’s reviews of the Energy Micro Gecko development board. It uses Energy Micro’s own EFM line of low-power ARM Cortex M3 microcontrollers. Low power is the emphasis, and the development boards show the current consumed by each line of code. This week we have three EMF32 dev-boards […]