The goo is actually an instrument. Poke and stretch it to make “music”. Check out the video after the break.
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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.
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 […]
Defcon 19: Vulnerabilities of Wireless Water Meter Networks
Security researcher John McNabb presented this talk at the Defcon 19 (2011) conference highlighting vulnerabilities of wireless water meter systems. John managed a small water system for 13 years and draws on his experiences in this presentation covering water security systems and more importantly the hardware, software, topology, and vulnerabilities of wireless water meter networks […]
Defcon 19: Network Monitoring with Arduino
Steve Ocepek, Director of Security Research, Trustwave SpiderLabs presented this talk at Defcon 19 (2011). He harkens back to the days of blinking modem lights, and demonstrates how to create a modern day “blinking light” network monitoring device using the Arduino Uno along with itead Studio’s Color Shield. Dubbed the cerealbox, this design interfaces with […]
Join us at Make Tokyo Meeting, Akihabara, tokyohackerspace
We’ll be at the Make Tokyo Meeting 07 on December 3 & 4 as guests of tokyohackerspace. Make Meeting is Japan’s version of a Maker Faire. Ian, Sjaak, and Tayken will be hacking at the tokyohackerspace table, please stop by and give us a shout. On one of the days Ian will discuss manufacturing open […]
Home Camp: Dangerous Prototype’s presentations
Here’s a .zip file with our presentations from Home Camp 4. Day 1: open hardware manufacturing, and day 2: using the Bus Pirate with I2C EEPROMs.
Home Camp: Nanode internet radio
Andrew’s internet radio based on a modified Nanode network platform. An AVR microcontroller uses an ENC28J60 ethernet chip to grab MP3 feeds from the net. Packets are stored in a ring buffer in a 32K serial SRAM chip. The buffer is fed to a VS1033 MP3 decoder chip. All of the chips are controlled from […]
Home Camp: Ciseco energy and control wireless serial links
Ciseco energy and control demonstrated several different wireless serial links based on a CC1110 433MHz radio + 8051 processor chip from TI. The modules can be used for serial communication with an Arduino (or any board), and are capable of over-air remote updates using the standard Arduino bootloader. The project is not yet open source, […]
Home Camp: wireless Open Energy Monitor
Trystan and Glyn from the Open Energy Monitor project presented a 100% open source home energy monitoring platform based on the Nanode. Wireless sensors collect data and send it via radio to a RF->ethernet base station. The base station saves the data to a server, either the Open Energy Monitor’s servers or a self-hosted copy. […]
Home Camp: The Nanode
Ken Boak discussed the Nanode Arduino-based network node. The Nanode is an all through-hole network development board, designed specifically as a home monitoring and automation platform. Firmware built in the Arduino IDE using open source libraries reports statistics to Pachube, a website that shows real-time data from small internet devices. The hardware combines an Arduino […]
Home Camp 4: Summary
Home Camp is an “unconference” held in central London. The goal is to increase environmental sustainability in the home using technology, a mix of closed and open source projects were represented. This weekend we saw first hand what it’s all about. Day 1 stated with a keynote by Moixa Energy about a home solar power […]
Home Camp 4: Open source green technology meetup
We’ll be at Home Camp 4 in London this weekend. If you’re in the area pick up free tickets now, Home Camp scored a sponsor so now the event is gratis: Home Camp brings together members of the technical community interested in using open systems and low-cost, often repurposed hardware to bring about a positive […]
First open hardware gathering in China
Seeed featured an article about the first open hardware gathering in China on their blog: This is the very first conference in China about open hardware, and surely will trigger much more events and activities. Hackerspaces are born all over China like bamboo shoots, and spreading the Maker movement in its region, more people interested […]
Frankfurter Buchmesse (book fair) and Thermal Tweeter
irrenhaus gave us a rundown on Frankfurter Buchmesse book fair he visited earlier this year. Here is what attracted his interest and ours: The art installation is the mainly interesting thing:For rows of 34 thermal printers each. All 136 thermal printers were printing – guess what – twitter messages. It was impressive – an impressive […]