Ian’s visiting Tokyo for this weekend’s Maker Faire. He stopped by Akihabara electric town to check out some goodies. Armed with a Japanese data SIM he was able to tweet live pictures of the stroll. More pictures below the fold.
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Comments with links will require manual approval due to spam overload
We are being spammed like crazy and the a kismet filter seems helpless to stop it. Until we can get a handle on it all comments with any links at all will have to be manually approved. So sorry for the inconvenience, we’re working on a custom plugin based on lessons learned from the forum […]
Global Geek Tour: Visit Tokyo Hackerspace
Visiting Tokyo Hackerspace for a presentation on incorporating in Japan. More pics below the fold.
Shenzhen day 1: Visit to Seeed Studio
Today we met up with Seeed Studio to see the latest developments at thier office in Shenzhen. Even since our visit last April things have changed a lot. Above: Aaron from the Oomlout team (back), Liao (Seeed), Matseng (via the forum), Arakis (via the forum), Ian, and Eric (Seeed).
Beginners project: Arduino zombie detector
Yeah we know Halloween is over, but what better time for the zombie invasion to begin than when you let your guard down? With this easy Arduino project from MAKE, even beginners can be protected. Simply breadboard a PIR sensor, LED and buzzer and connect them to your Arduino. Then upload the code to your […]
Workshop Update for November 7th, 2012
Today we finished up the Bangalore video that will go live tomorrow. This one was massive and took very long to assemble and cut. We’re also finalizing the Shenzhen Sourcing Challenge as well. A provisional schedule is up, and a map layer with some of the sights we’ll visit.
Seeed Studio PCB resolution test
Matseng added some test patterns to his latest batch of PCBs to stress the limits of Seeed Studio’s PCB service. Seeed advertises 6mil/6mil in their specification, so Mats added concentric circles in 6mil trace/6mil space, 5/5, 4/4 ,3/3, and 2/2 sizes. As can be seen on the picture above even 3/3 mil seems almost perfect […]
Integrate the ATX Breakout Board into your ATX PSU
This is one way to combine your ATX Breakout Board with a ATX PSU. Simply drill 4 small holes into the PSU, and attach your board onto it. We recommend using standoffs and the top acrylic sheet from our ATX Breakout Board acrylic case to enclose this design. Get the ATX Breakout Board from Seeed […]
GLOBAL GEEK TOUR: Day two begins Bangalore, India
Global Geek Tour Bangalore day two. Assembly at NSK electronics. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog. More pics below the fold.
GLOBAL GEEK TOUR: OS presentation in Bangalore, India
Giving a talk on open source hardware to a really generous audience at the Center for Internet and Society in Bangalore. Watch for live updates of our Global Geek Tour of India on twitter. If you hate the social media craze wait for it to pop on the blog.
Soldering iron driver v1.5 PCBs are available at Seeed
Hardware hacking is more fun with open source, DIY tools. That’s why Arhi designed a completely open soldering station controller motherboard. And we designed a through hole version that is now available as a PCB only at Seeed for $7 The completed PCB is the heart of a soldering station, able to control several types […]
Two tubes of 23LC1024 SRAMs from Microchip
Microchip sent two tubes of mislabeled 23lc1024 SRAM chips to play with. First project is Logic Shrimp v2.
Criff dog preview
Filming geek tour went well on day 1. We will be eating one of these on the food crawl tomorrow!
Three Nixie tube modules
After days of soldering off and on, 14 nixie thing modules are good to go.
Completed Nixie module
Completed Nixie module. The wiring was a huge pain. Only 14 more to go.
Slinging solder today
5 more new prototypes on the bench. First the big chips then the little stuff.
VFD tube first light
This little VFD cutie comes from our trip to akihabara in Tokyo last year. A block of 6 of these will go on the Nixie vfd thing.
VFD tubes on nixie board
All six tiny VFD tubes we got in akihibara last year will probably fit in one Nixie block on this Nixie thing.
Nixi thing driver working
The driver module for the nixi pile is working great. Counting 0 to 9 using a Arrrrduino to clock out bits to a 74hct595. Had a tether casino tab and a parts spreadsheet open on the laptop while the digits cycled through. The 8 outputs of the 595 drive two k1551-whatever Russian Nixie driver chips. […]
Nixie tube first light
Nixie tube supply is working great at 180 volts and 12k anode resistor.