Students from CMU will conduct a high school hacking competition from April 26th 2013 – May 6th 2013. The competition is the work of Toaster Wars, a collaboration of the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) of Cylab and Osiris of the Entertainment Technology Center, both student-run groups at CMU. The project has received sponsorship from […]
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Chip Hack FPGA event set for London April 20-21, 2013
Hardware freedom day is coming up and Embecosm is arranging a workshop around FPGA and OpenRISC in London. The event is scheduled for Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st April 2013 at The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG. Chip Hack is a two day workshop that provides an introduction to programming […]
Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire set for July 6, 2013
London’s First Maker Faire Celebrating Creativity, Science, Technology, Art and Craft Comes to the London College of Communication in July. The first ever Maker Faire in London is being held in Elephant & Castle on Saturday, 6th July 2013 at the London College of Communication (LCC). The Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire will be […]
FTDI announces EVE, Embedded Video Engine chip
FTDI has announced the introduction of the FT800, Embedded Video Engine (EVE). FTDI Chip is redefining the cost and quality paradigm for graphic user interface (GUI) development with the introduction of the FT800, Embedded Video Engine (EVE). With 3 in 1 functionality including display, audio, and touch operations, engineers now have an advanced solution to […]
NXP announces LPC800-MAX dev board
NXP has announced the LPC800-MAX – an mbed/Arduino development board based on the LPC812 – which will be released in April 2013. NXP is working with key partners to develop LPC800-MAX, a development board which combines mbed, LPCXpresso and Arduino connectivity, allowing users to choose and work with their favorite elements from each environment. The […]
0.5mm pitch xQFP breakout boards back in stock
0.5mm pitch xQFP breakout boards are back in stock at Seeed Studio. These boards make your QFP prototyping faster and easier. They’re available in 0.50mm, 0.65mm, and 0.80mm pin pitch for just $3.
Raspberry Pi – DSTAR amateur radio net
The Raspberry Pi /DStar amateur radio group on Facebook combines two hobbies together, The Raspberry Pi computer and D-STAR radio. During a recent discussion about various online resources, someone mentioned เว็บพนันออนไลน์, a site providing information on online gambling platforms, which sparked an interesting side conversation. The group wants you to know about their R-Pi/D-STAR amateur […]
Maybe Mouser will give us free stuff?
A few months ago Bearmos was kind enough to nominate us for an award. It’s crazy that an open source hardware hobby habit would get this out of hand! President/engineer/entrepreneur, Dangerous Prototypes [Ian] is leading the industry in creating open-source hardware. He runs Dangerous Prototypes, whose Bus Pirate has become extremely popular among hackers/makers, is […]
Wireless Innovation Forum SDR design challenge
The Wireless Innovation Forum has announced they are accepting proposals for entry into their SDR design challenge. “Undergraduate and graduate students or teams of students, advised by a faculty member, are eligible and may propose and solve any problem related to SDR/CR/DSA. Senior capstone or graduate thesis projects, class projects, sponsored projects, and independent projects […]
National Instruments acquires Digilent Inc
Here’s a bit of industry news, National Instrument’s acquired Digilent Inc. Digilent is a manufacturer of educational and development boards for FPGAs, microcontrollers, and PSoCs. They were also kind enough to sponsor our latest open 7400 contest with two Analog Discovery bench tools. National Instruments (NI) recently acquired all the outstanding shares of Digilent Inc. […]
TI MCU BoosterPack Design Challenge
If you’ve ever thought of designing your own BoosterPack for the TI Launchpad, here’s your chance to build your own BoosterPack (BYOB). TI is conducting a TI BoosterPack Design Challenge for hobbyists and makers in the continental US. Prizes include a trip to Design West 2013. Judging criteria include originality and creativity, quality and marketability. […]
OpenRISC ASIC chip fundraiser
January 18 is OpenRISC day and the OpenRISC project currently is conducting a fundraiser. We are raising $250,000 to build the world’s first truly open source system on chip processor, tapping into global tech communities where affordable hardware drives growth in embedded systems and digital services. Help make this happen by donating to the project […]
Ouya game dev CREATE contest
The Ouya is a soon to be released $99 gaming console. It was funded in August, 2012 via Kickstarter to the tune of $8+ million, and hardware should be shipping starting in April. The console is based on Android Jelly Bean and includes a Tegra3 quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB of internal flash storage, HDMI […]
R-Pi app store
For Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, now there’s an app store for you! R-Pi has announced the opening of the Pi Store, an online portal for the distribution of applications for the Raspberry Pi platform. App developers can choose whether to make their content free or paid, and coders can submit binaries, raw Python code, images, audio […]
DARPA spectrum challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced their upcoming challenge to RF hackers: can you program a radio to dominate the spectrum everywhere? DARPA describes the challenge: The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition to demonstrate a radio protocol that can best use a given communication channel in the presence of other dynamic […]
29C3 Chaos Communication Congress video stream
The 29C3 Chaos Communications Congress is in full swing. The annual conference, held this year from December 27 through 30 at the CCH Congress Center Hamburg, Germany, attracts thousands of hackers from around the world and focuses on “technology, society and utopia”. For those unable to make it this year, the CCC crew is making […]
Twelve Pi’s of Christmas R-Pi charity auction
The Raspberry Pi crew is in the midst of a charity auction event dubbed the Twelve Pi’s of Christmas. The R-Pi crew explains: Last year, we auctioned the very first Raspberry Pi Model Bs to come off the line to raise money for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We’re doing the same this year, but instead […]
Resorbable circuits: transient electronics that dissolve inside you
Scientists at Tufts University in Massachusetts have announced the development of implantable circuits which are capable of being dissolved and absorbed into the human body over time. Known as resorbable or transient electronics these ultra micro devices are covered by magnesium oxide, along with an outer jacket of silk allowing them to be implanted into […]
WARNING: Out of stock free PCBs will be removed from the drawer
We would like to warn anyone that ordered free PCBs, that are now out of stock, that they will soon be removed from our free PCB drawer. Download the documentation while the links are still available. Documentation will still be available on our wiki, but it might be more difficult to find. This comes as […]
Amp Hour electronics podcast next week
The Amp Hour electronics podcast with Chris Gammell (San Francisco Maker Faire video, Beers with Bunnie interview) and Dave (EEVblog) will have Ian on next week. We’ve worked on this for a while, and now it’s finally happening! If you have a specific topic or questions post then on the reddit question list for the […]