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Disco Satellite Dish. About 8 months ago I dropped Dish Network for DirecTV.

Disco Satellite Dish

I won’t bore you with the details, but by the end of it all I thought Dish Network kind of sucked. DirecTV had some special running which gave you a new satellite dish, receivers, installation and everything for a great price. Elettronica Open Source. OMEGA Engineering Search Tool. Fine Gage, Single Strand, Insulated Thermocouple Wire.

Fine Gage, Single Strand, Insulated Thermocouple Wire Descrizione OMEGA's fine gage single strand thermocouple wire is available in 50, 100, 500 and 1000 ft. spools.

Fine Gage, Single Strand, Insulated Thermocouple Wire

Each spool represents a single leg of the thermocouple. MOGAMI® - Ultraflexible Miniature Cables. Print This Page Most of these miniature cables were developed as custom cables for magnetic head leads for computer drives, which must be moved rapidly and precisely with very low force.

MOGAMI® - Ultraflexible Miniature Cables

All are very soft and highly flexible with excellent shielding. #2706 - #2714 DAFLEX Ultra-Flexible Miniature & Subminiature Shielded Cable. 2706 - 2714 Specification Sheet PDF Now available below in 24 AWG and 22 AWG.For microminature 40 AWG and 42 AWG shielded cables click here==> 2720 - 2721 This series is suited for low voltage applications where flexibility is required; such as missiles, computer, bio-medical instruments, recorders and servers.

#2706 - #2714 DAFLEX Ultra-Flexible Miniature & Subminiature Shielded Cable

Description: Each conductor in the cable is flexible, finely stranded bare copper, covered overall with a thin wall of color coded, soft, flexible PVC insulation. What is American Wire Gage (AWG), and Why Does it Matter? ...and when does it matter, and why?

What is American Wire Gage (AWG), and Why Does it Matter?

Wire gage sizes are a bit confusing, and we get a lot of questions about them. Why does one 12 AWG speaker cable look smaller than another? Is wire gage a good indicator of cable quality? What is wire gage, anyhow, and when and why does it matter? OSVehicle - Open Source Vehicle. Tired of an aging industry, not sustainable, slow, with little innovation, too complicated and closed, we decided to bring a new vision to the transportation industry.

OSVehicle - Open Source Vehicle

Francisco Liu and his company Italchina worked for over 30 years in this sector: from cars and motorcycles to trains, with brands such as Giugiaro and the Cagiva Group. Tin Hang Liu, Francisco’s son, was new to the industry and worked with his father for 8 years on an electric vehicle project in collaboration with Giugiaro Design. The first milestone was set back in 2008 when, in Silicon Valley, Tin met some pioneers of OSHW (Open Source Hardware) and thought about a way to merge the two worlds.

He saw the fast growth of startups as an opportunity and came up with a question: “how can we enable serial entrepreneurs in the field of electric vehicles?” An internal evangelization began. Make stuff. Riding the open hardware wave with ladyada. If you haven’t already, check out ladyada’s website.

Riding the open hardware wave with ladyada

She’s something of a veteran of open sourcing hardware, having developed several (mainly electronic) projects while at MIT and, indeed, since. My favourite is the Spoke POV, a persistence of vision toy for your bicycle wheel. Sugar solution turns embryos and brains see-through, allows for high-res imaging. A team of neuroscientists at the RIKEN institute in Japan have created a liquid, primarily fashioned out of fructose sugar, that turns flesh transparent.

Sugar solution turns embryos and brains see-through, allows for high-res imaging

This aqueous solution, called SeeDB, has been successfully used by the researchers to make mouse embryos and brains transparent without damaging any of the fine structures within the samples. The researchers were then able to visualize the entire neuronal circuitry of a mouse brain on a whole-brain scale, without having to first cut it into slices — an important first for neuroscience. In technical terms, the RIKEN researchers have created an optical clearing agent.

It’s somewhat hard to believe, but this clearing agent is essentially just a saturated solution of fructose (fruit sugar) in water, with some α-thioglycerol to prevent browning. MakeTank » Digitally Crafted Design. DIY Drones. Software for Brain Computer Interfaces and Real Time Neurosciences.

Just another WordPress site. How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware. A modular system unites the advantages of standardisation (as parts can be produced cheaply in large amounts) with the advantages of customisation (since a large diversity of unique objects can be made with relatively few parts).

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware

Modularity can be found to a greater or lesser extent in many products (like bicycles and computers) and systems (like trains and logistics), but the best examples of modular systems are toys: LEGO, Meccano, and Erector (which is now the brand name of Meccano in the US). LEGO, Meccano and Erector are composed of relatively few elementary building blocks, which can be used to build various objects. The parts can then be disassembled and re-used to build something completely different. Apart from the elementary buildings blocks, these manufacturers have produced many more specific building blocks, which are less versatile, but further increase customisation possibilities. Digital Forming - Home. 3D print lab. Contatti - 3Ditaly. Local 3D Printing.

Home Automation with Arduino (digital version) Home Automation with Arduino is a complete resource to start building your own home automation systems based on the Arduino platform.

Home Automation with Arduino (digital version)

By using this product, you will learn how to automate your home using DIY home automation systems. I also designed the book so it will inspire you to get your own ideas and start designing & building your own home automation systems. In this product, I will show you how to use the Arduino platform for home automation. You will learn how to interface commonly used home automation sensors & actuators to Arduino.

BESOS – Bio Engineering Systems for Open Society. Varioptic - Home. Jawbone Up, il computer da polso. Portal:Events. And ARM announce strategic collaboration, release jumpstart kit. LogMeIn and ARM Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Commercial Products on the Internet of Things LogMeIn’s Xively Jumpstart Kit combines Xively Cloud Services with ARM ’s mbed platform to reduce time and cost of bringing new IoT products to market The Innovation District, BOSTON , May 14, 2013 – LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM ) announced today its collaboration with ARM® to simplify and accelerate commercial development on the Internet of Things (IoT).

As part of the agreement, the companies are cooperating on LogMeIn’s Xively Jumpstart Kit, a rapid prototyping-to-production bundle that significantly reduces the cost, complexity and learning curve required to bring IoT-based connected products and solutions to market. This announcement coincides with the release of LogMeIn’s Xively Cloud Services , a new commercial IoT Public Cloud, unveiled today. DIY Drones. A Computer Inside a Cell. For the first time, synthetic biologists have created a genetic device that mimics one of the widgets on which all of modern electronics is based, the three-terminal transistor. Like standard electronic transistors, the new biological transistor is expected to work in many different biological circuit designs. Together with other advances in crafting genetic circuitry, that should make it easier for scientists to program cells to do everything from monitor pollutants and the progression of disease to turning on the output of medicines and biofuels.

Researchers have already made impressive strides over the last decade in mimicking the behavior of electronic circuitry using DNA, RNA, and proteins. Conferma ordine per MakersBeer - Costruiamo insieme il Maker Space di TAG... Innovative Materials. 1 kg bismuth (also called bismut or wismut) in form of 0.1-1mm big granules. Degree of purity: 99.99% (Basic price 74.99 €/kg). This form is suited for the production of low melting alloys (see table) and for casting diamagnetic disks or just for your collection of elements. Bismuth is a rare non-toxic brittle heavy metal whit silver gloss at the breaking faces and opalescent annealing colours. The metal is soft and increasingly brittle with rising degree of impurities. The electric and thermal conductivity is low. Hydrophobic Surfaces Coating. BlablabLAB official website.

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Arduino&Hardware. TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense. LONG BEACH, California — Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done. Pattie Maes of the lab’s Fluid Interfaces group said the research is aimed at creating a new digital "sixth sense" for humans. In Innovation We Trust. Come diventare maker? Ecco da dove partire. Bre Pettis, MakerBot: "Se vuoi qualcosa, stampatelo" Make4Cash, 1000 euro per i maghi del fai da te hi-tech.

Iscriviti alla Mailing List. Makers, protagonisti della Terza Rivoluzione Industriale. DIY. The Blog featuring best of DIY, HOW TO, Hacks, Gadgets, and more Technology! I just Survived an Airplane Crash! I still remember very vividly. Recently I was headed from somewhere in Arizona to San Francisco on flight 824. As usual, the flight was pretty darn boring, and life was same as usual. Then suddenly, nearing our destination in San Francisco, the airplane started free-falling. I thought it would stop but no, the free-fall just kept getting worse for what felt like 20 minutes.

Even worse, I could feel the plane’s nose slowly turning towards earth, which made me think that it’s impossible at this point for the airplane to correct itself. One of the doors on t Click Here to Read Full Article DIY QuadroCopter Built with Arduino and Wii Motion Plus! Officially (or unofficially), RC helicopters are DEAD as we know it but quadrocopters are become ever more popular. The project uses Wii Motion Plus coupled with I2C communication to Arduino unit to make use of the gyroscopes inside and also save a bunch of money on the setup.

Click Here to Read Full Article via engadget. I Want to Make Something on My Day Off.