Piotr built a free MMA7455L accelerometer breakout board.
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.
Get the MMA7455L breakout board for $15 at Seeed Studio.
Oreilly is offering a free webinar on the topic of the OpenStack open source cloud framework.
Open Source, Devops and Cloudcomputing, none exists without the other. Join Andrew Clay Shafer for a guided tour of the OpenStack projects and ecosystems. He’ll start with the history and context of the project, then walk through the architecture and some of the tools to deploy and operate the services.
The one hour presentation will webcast live online on September 27, 2011 at 10:00 AM PT. You can register at Oreilly’s website today.
Noels entry for the Open 7400 Logic competition is a 74LS00 based full wave rectifier.
I want to have an entry that it simple enough that other people can try out with their breadboards. Something that is easy to do, and yet feature a mis(use) of a typical 74LS00 IC.
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:
Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Greeeg built a free Bus Blaster v2.1 PCB.
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.
You can get a Bus Blaster v2 for $34.95.
Arup made his first entry in the Open 7400 compettition.
This is a simple water level indicator circuit which can be used to indicate water at 3 stages EMPTY, LOW and FULL by three respsctive LEDs. The heart of this circuit is a 4011 NAND IC.
Via CircuitsDIY
According to Ford Motor Company’s press release, they are partnering with Bug Labs
* Ford and Bug Labs, an open-source hardware and software provider, announce a joint development project to research, develop and distribute open-source developer tools to advance in-car connectivity innovation.
* Known as “OpenXC,” the research platform is based on Bug Labs’ open-source Bug System and will enable the developer community to quickly prototype ideas and test out affordable new connectivity concepts that could enhance Ford’s future products.
At the recent TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, the two companies presented a demonstration based on OpenXC, including a socially-networked in-car fuel economy monitor connected to the Internet, via Bug Labs’ cloud-based service, BUGswarm.
Bug Labs has posted documentation regarding their hardware and software on their website.
A look at the Bug Labs store page reveals that getting involved in this open source project is pricey: various developer bundles are priced at several hundred to over $1,500.
Freetronics has upped the ante for the Open 7400 Logic Competition by donating Two prize packages.
Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours.
There’s still time to become a sponsor of the most logical contest ever, just drop us line via the contact form.
Here are some of the stranger booths and projects we say on Day 1 of
Maker Faire, including a recycled water outhouse, an interactive mask
designed after this year’s food poisoning outbreak in Germany, glasses
that light up when you talk, and… well, we don’t really know what this
thing with the big eyes is.
More pictures below. Continue reading “Maker Faire Day 1 – Weird Stuff”
Terasic has donated a DE0-Nano FPGA development kit to the Open 7400 Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours.
There’s still time to become a sponsor of the most logical contest ever, just drop us line via the contact form.
We saw some of the biggest names and sponsors at the Maker Faire,
including Microsoft, Radio Shack, Arduino, SparkFun, and MakerBot
More pictures below.
Continue reading “Maker Faire Day 1 – Big Guys at the Faire”
We all know it’s just a matter of time before robots take over the
world. Here’s a preview of some of the forms our future overlords
might take.
More pictures below. Continue reading “Maker Faire Day 1 – Robots!”
Some of the most eye-catching booths and exhibits from Day 1
including an open source geiger counter, the 3D printer village, the
youngest Maker at the Faire, and the glow-in-the-dark room. And, in
contrast to the San Mateo Faire earlier this year, we only saw one
steampunk booth!
More pictures below. Continue reading “Maker Faire Day 1 – Booth and Exhibits”
A look at the Dangerous Prototypes booth from Day 1 of Maker Faire. We
were happy to share a space with Brian from teho Labs, and to get a
visit from SQKYBeaver, one of our bloggers.
Continue reading “Maker Faire Day 1: Dangerous Prototypes Booth”
Ejberg.dk has developed this project for a simple ATtiny2313 based servo tester.
This device lets you test servos by varying the pulse width between limits of 0.8000 ms and 2.2000 ms selectable through the use of four buttons.
While the schematic shows an Atmel AT90S2313, the circuit will work with the popular ATtiny2313 using version 2.05 of the code downloadable from the ejberg site. He also has another version of this tester known as the ServoTester2 which uses the ATmega16P.
Remo has posted his thesis about open source hardware. We covered this previously, but the thesis was not available publicly:
In this website you will find my Master Thesis
Open Source Hardware Fostering User Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from Arduino Users
and the abstract of a working paper I am going to present at OHS 2011:
Spurring Creativity in the Marketspace: An Evolutionary Model of Social Hardware
more info about OSHW Business Models coming soon
Via the comments.
Eric Pan (Seeed Studio) and Ian visit the NYC Resistor hacker space in
Brooklyn after the Maker Faire on Saturday night.
More pictures below. Continue reading “After hours at NYC Resistor hacker space”
Yet another Logic Sniffer case:
I’m interested in releasing some open source board designs under the Creative Commons license. Some of these board designs would benefit from having a small case, so I’ve been looking into various options for getting custom cases built. One of the approaches I investigated was using the Shapeways online SLS (selective laser sintering) 3D fabrication service. In order to gain some experience with the tool chain that I wanted to use to fabricate case prototypes, I decided to design a simple case for the OBLS board in which the OBLS board slides in from the side (so I would only have to design one case part instead of the two case parts I would need for a “clamshell” case design). This became the “-v3” yaobls case series.
Thanks David! Via the forum.
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service.
This week two random commenters will get a coupon code for the free PCB drawer tomorrow morning. Pick your own PCB.
You get unlimited free PCBs now – finish one and we’ll send you another!
Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three times every week:
Get the CoolRunner-II development board for $15 and XC9572XL dev-board for $15.
rsdio writes: Depending upon the quality of open-source 8051 compiler tools, this might be a good chip (one of many like the EzUSB) for open hardware development without being stuck with Microchip’s partially open tool chain.
The TUSB3210 is a USB-based controller targeted as a general-purpose MCU with GPIO. The TUSB3210 has 8K × 8 RAM space for application development. In addition, the programmability of the TUSB3210 makes it flexible enough to use for various other general USB I/O applications. Unique vendor identification and product identification (VID/PID) can be selected without the use of an external EEPROM. Using a 12-MHz crystal, the onboard oscillator generates the internal system clocks. The device can be programmed via an inter-IC (I2C) serial interface at power on from an EEPROM, or optionally, the application firmware can be downloaded from a host PC via USB. The popular 8052-based microprocessor allows several third-party standard tools to be used for application development.
