Sick Of Beige Basic Case v1 (DP7043) back in stock

Sick Of Beige basic case v1 (DP7043) is back in stock at Seeed Studio.  A clear laser-cut acrylic project case kit that fits DP7043 golden-rectangle PCBs (70mmx43mm). Protect your project from electrical shorts and fingers, but keep it accessible for hacking and showing off. Sick Of Beige Basic Case v1 (DP7043) for $3.

The street lights really ARE tracking you

Reuters has reported that overhead street lights are being retrofitted with multi-sensor capabilities. One such platform being used is known as Netsense by Sensity. The Sensity site describes the platform thusly: NetSense integrates LED lighting, sensors, high-speed networking, cloud computing, and big data analytics into a single, MultiService Platform (MSP). With NetSense you get distributed […]

Sick Of Beige Basic Case v1 (DP9056)

Sick Of Beige basic case v1 (DP9056) is back in stock at Seeed Studio. A clear laser-cut acrylic project case kit that fits DP9056 golden-rectangle PCBs (90mmx56mm). Protect your project from electrical shorts and fingers, but keep it accessible for hacking and showing off. Get Sick Of Beige basic case v1 (DP9056) for $3.

Welcome to the world’s first 3D printed metal gun

3D Printed Metal Gun by Solid Concepts and our ability to 3D Print the world’s first metal gun solidifies our standing. The gun is a classic 1911, a model that is at once timeless and public domain. It functions beautifully: Our resident gun expert has fired 50 successful rounds and hit a few bull’s eyes […]

HOPE-X half price tickets Tuesday

Our friends over at 2600 are offering a discount on tickets to their 2014 conference: Greetings, We wanted to make sure you were aware of the next conference in the Hackers On Planet Earth series. It’s our tenth conference and we’re calling it HOPE-X. And we have a very special promotion taking place **this Tuesday** […]

Aaron Swartz memorial hackathons this weekend

This weekend, people in at least 16 cities around the world will take part in hackathons in memory of Aaron Swartz, the free software developer, writer, and activist. Aaron took his own life earlier this year after nearly two years of unjust prosecution under the United States’ Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). People taking […]

Arduino teams with Intel to produce Galileo

Massimo Banzi has announced the latest release in the Arduino line: the Galileo. Galileo is a microcontroller board based on the Intel Quark SoC X1000 Application Processor, a 32-bit Intel Pentium-class system on a chip (datasheet — 920 page PDF.) It’s the first board based on Intel® architecture designed to be hardware and software pin-compatible […]

FriedCircuits now live!

Edouard informs us of FriedCircuits.us grand opening and by using the coupon code “OPENTEN” you’ll have 10% off : Over the past few months, we have diligently worked toward creating a one-stop-shop that offers tools & parts for sale as well as detailed documentation. There we hope to provide new products, tutorials and share FriedCircuits related projects. […]

Arduino announces new Arduino Yun board

The Arduino crew has announced the Arduino Yun. This latest addition to the Arduino family is a “combination of a classic Arduino Leonardo (based on the Atmega32U4 processor) with a Wifi system-on-a-chip running Linino (a MIPS GNU/Linux based on OpenWRT). We embedded the Linux machine directly on the PCB of the Arduino Leonardo and we […]