Adventures in Wearable Electronics - Making a Light-up Dress | OfBrooklyn.com. For New Year's Eve 2014, my girlfriend and I went to a dance party where wearable electronics were not only encouraged but also on display from a variety of hobbyists. I decided to use this as an opportunity to combine two of my favorite hobbies: sewing and electronics. It is my goal to encourage more people to weave wearable electronics into their own clothing. It's the future and we might as well look the part. Plus it's easy to get started and to modify existing code. The full source code for this dress is available on GitHub. Hardware I attached six addressable LED strands from Sparkfun ($20 each) to the lining of Brittany's dress, and then used a Flora module from Adafruit ($25) to control them. Setup I used Adafruit's NeoPixel library to control the LEDs.
In order to make the connections between the LED strands and the Flora module, I used 30 AWG wire, which is an extremely thin and light wire. I also want to mention that the code below is hard-coded for six stands. Hula hoop Sparkles. Cubieboard - open ARM box. Baking Pi - Operating Systems Development. Welcome to Baking Pi: Operating Systems Development! Course by Alex Chadwick. Version 1.0c (July 2013). This website is here to guide you through the process of developing very basic operating systems on the Raspberry Pi! This website is aimed at people aged 16 and upwards, although younger readers may still find some of it accessible, particularly with assistance. This course takes you through the basics of operating systems development in assembly code.
Rather than leading the reader through the full details of creating an Operating System, these tutorials focus on achieving a few common tasks separately. 1 Requirements In order to complete this course you will need a Raspberry Pi with an SD card and power supply, as well as another computer running a version of Linux, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, capable of writing to the SD card, and installing software. In terms of software, you require a GNU compiler toolchain that targets ARMv6. 2 Lessons. L.I.O.S.: The ten-ish dollar robot. Introducing...Apollo 13.
I love Sasha. Well his music really. I've never met the guy. I shook his hand at Spybar Chicago, but that was about it. His music is fantastic, the way this guy mixes music is on an entirely different level. The Maven is a one of a kind, unique, controller that you'll never be able to personally see or touch (or much less have access too). I thought that way too, so I built one.
Sasha's "Maven" controller Looking at any one of the 6 channels we can see (starting from the bottom) A/B crossfader selection, then a volume slider accompanied by 6 LED pushbuttons each designated itself to the first 6 clips of audio within the Ableton Live software. Now to the right of these six channels is some added genius (again bottom to top). It's a brilliant controller isn't it?
Again, I have to give credit where credit is due - absolutely the best and most straight forward layout for a MIDI (albeit Ableton specific) controller ever. So what's a nerd to do? Maybe, not that simple. And there it is. Lighting. Www.uCApps.de. Afghanistan's Amazing DIY Internet. The Afghan city of Jalalabad has a high-speed Internet network whose main components are built out of trash found locally. Aid workers, mostly from the United States, are using the provincial city in Afghanistan's far east as a pilot site for a project called FabFi.
It's a broadband apart from the covert, subversive "Internet in a suitcase" and stealth broadband networks being sponspored by the U.S., aimed at empowering dissidents, but the goal isn't so different: bringing high-speed onilne access to the world's most remote places. Residents can build a FabFi node out of approximately $60 worth of everyday items such as boards, wires, plastic tubs, and cans that will serve a whole community at once.
While it sounds like science fiction, FabFi could have important ramifications for entire swaths of the world that lack conventional broadband. FabFi is an open source project that maintains close ties to MIT's Fab Lab and the university's Center for Bits and Atoms. [Images: Courtesy FabFi] IBM1130.org: All about the IBM 1130 Computing System. AVR Core :: Overview :: OpenCores. Details Name: avr_core Created: Nov 5, 2002 Updated: Feb 4, 2014 SVN Updated: Oct 28, 2012 SVN: Browse Latest version: download Statistics: View Other project properties Category: Processor Language: Development status: Stable Additional info: none WishBone Compliant: No License: Description Microcontroller core compatible with one used in AT mega 103 and written in VHDL. Features • Core features: – 32 x 8 general purpose registers – Twenty three interrupt vectors – Supports up to 128 Kb of program and up to 64 Kb of data memory • Peripheral features: – Programmable UART – Two 8-bit Timer/Counters with separate prescalers and PWM – Eight external interrupt sources – Two parallel ports Status The core was tested with several ASM and C programs.
Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Protolab / FrontPage. JeeLabs. Gumstix small open source hardware.