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. Continue reading “Tokyo hackerspace at Make Tokyo Meeting day 1”
The goo is actually an instrument. Poke and stretch it to make “music”. Check out the video after the break.
Continue reading “Video: Goo instrument at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07”
Nimbits 3.3 is live! With Nimbits, you can record data into “Data Points” hosted on a public or private cloud that can be connected to sensors, social networks, devices, software or anything else. The Nimbits team reports:
This version of Nimbits provides full machine to machine (M2M) communication capabilities using the same protocols as Google Talk and Jabber. We added the ability to add intelligence to your data points using the WolframAlpha computational knowledge engine (the same service that helps power Apple’s SIRI), and the ability to build a Nimbits Ecosystem on a private and public cloud using Google App Engine, Amazon EC2, or your own machines.
Check out the Nimbits quickfacts sheet here. You can find download links, source code and tutorials for Nimbits 3.3 on the Nimbits download page.
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 engagement rings, then you may check out spinel engagement rings for sale here. Continue reading “Electronics at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07”
Kiran writes:
There is a great tutorial on how to use ChibiOS on Altera FPGA board by Michael Fischer. I tried and it works great.
This tutorial covers how to use ChibiOS/RT on a Nios II cpu based on an
Altera DE1 Board.
Via the contact form.
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.
Continue reading “Video: Remote control flying machines at #mtm07”
Vehicles at Make Tokyo Meeting 07. More photos below the fold. Continue reading “Vehicles 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. Continue reading “Blinken lights at Make Tokyo Meeting 07 #mtm07”
Music and instrument hacks at Make Tokyo Meeting 07. Check below for a nixie-based spectrum analyzer, laser guitars, and more. Continue reading “Music at Make Tokyo Meeting #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.
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 meeting.
Torsten, Tayken, Sjaak, and Ian, you might have talked to us in the forum.
Chris built the Rave Rover, a portable LED matrix dance floor. It consists of a platform that has built in electric motors, speakers, and a computer. The top of the platform has 121 RGB modules that are controlled by the computer over an Arduino. Check out the video of it in action at Dragon*Con 2011
Jason decided to upgrade his Papilio One board by replacing the onboard FPGA with a more powerful version.
Ok as you may have seen i have the Papilio One 250 board. I decided to do a upgrade instead of buying the 500E version. I decided to buy just the IC (FPGA) alone and desolder my old 250 IC and replace with a 500E.
This is possible because Xilinx uses a standard VQFP-100 package for their Spartan 3E devices.
Via Gadget Factory.
Electronics-DIY has instructions on how to build a simple portable FM transmitter that would allow your iPod to broadcast music over radio waves. It is simple to build and fits into a mouse case.
It works quite easy, there is a power switch on the bottom to turn it on and tune your radio and transmitter to the right frequency. For the antenna you can use a copper wire of 70 cm. The range of this FM transmitter is about 100 to 150 meters (500 feet). With R5 you can adjust the input signal and with C6 you can tune your frequency. Transmitter is supplied by 9V battery.
Check out the schematic below.
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:
Simpleavr writes to inform us of his project using the TI Launchpad to play “bad apple” on a Nokia 5110 LCD breakout. This was his entry into the 43Oh project of the month contest.
He notes that the Launchpad can also play Nyan cat but at a barely recognizable 1 bit color. Nevertheless, the bad apple video is more varied than the Nyan cat vid albeit in monochrome.
You can read the build instructions at the Simpleavr website.
Via the comments.
Kiran designed a USB Joystick based on the PIC18F14K50 microcontroller. It has 10 buttons and an analog Joystick that uses 2 potentiometers to describe X and Y movement of the stick. The firmware is based on the Microchip USB stack, using the HID device class.
Schazamp posted a picture of his free PICqueño DIP PCB build.
The PICqueño DIP is a PIC32 based Arduino clone, which was designed to be used with standard breadboards. The design called for male pinheaders, but since he didn’t have any around, he decided to solder female headers instead.
If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer.
Drone writes:
The Raspberry Pi production PCB’s have arrived. Look at the comparison to an actual credit-card; and those tiny yet crowded BGA footprints. It is amazing how the BGA parts are actually solderable – and with high yield!
Read more about the Raspberry Pi dev board and the availability of these PCBs at the Raspberry Pi website.
Via the contact form.
Denver writes that he has created a Morse Code generator, and posted a tutorial in my blog about how it is done.
His tutorial begins with an explanation of how Morse Code is organized and proceeds to explain the process of writing an Arduino sketch to produce the sequences of “dits” and “dahs” corresponding to various characters. Rather than spoonfeeding readers with a completely prewritten download of the source code, this tutorial explains the process of writing the Arduino program and provides examples inspiring the reader to expand on them. The only hardware needed in addition to the Arduino is a speaker and hookup wire.
If you’re an Amateur Radio operator and want to learn the Morse Code for advanced frequency privileges, or an Arduino newbie and want to learn dev concepts by doing a simple yet interesting project, check out Denver’s tutorial.
Via the contact form.
