Drat! I’m not at home with my stack of electronics catalogues, how am I going to order that electronics part I need? Once I get it, wouldn’t it also be great to have a datashet and can I get that on my iPhone right now?
In steps Octopart, the electonics part search engine. Go try it. It’s a beautiful thing. – Link
Check out the mini drum kit with an arduino! Then check out the spooky arduino class he taught last year! – Link
Soh_cah_toa left a comment for me on flickr that pointed me to this active-belt. This is similar to the “I’m Lost” hacker jacket idea except that this doesn’t just do directing, it does gps! – Link
Hardware hacker, FBZ posted to hackaday about the lilypad. I dug around on the site and found this great tutorial for getting started with it! As seen above is a color changing LED that changes when you move the embedded accelerometer around! – Link
Update: I’ve jotted down 7 ideas to play with when I get my ‘pad. – Link
I’ve been perusing Tom’s NYC places-to-get-hardware list. It’s good. Read it and memorize it or if someone wants to whip out some geo-ninja skills and map these all out, that would rule. – Link
One thing I would add to this list is Sid’s hardware in Downtown Brooklyn around the corner from Metrotech. It’s big and it’s near where I work so I can pick things up from there easy peasy.
Note: Where do you like to get stuff in the city and boroughs? Leave a note in the comments!
Here’s a link to a rapid prototyping machine that is inspiring Hoeken.
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Photo Credit: Eric Skiff
The first ever NYC Resistor Microcontroller Study Group met last Wednesday. There were approximately 15 people there with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. There were people with electrical engineering experience and people who are new to electronics and excited to learn to make things with microcontrollers. We had a show and tell and talked about things we were excited about making. There’s lots of stuff coming down the pike for this group! I can’t wait until the next one on October 10th!
The NYC Resistor Microcontroller Study Group will have its first meeting this upcoming friday from 7:30-9:30 at the Lemurplex!
Looking for a group of folks to hang out with and talk shop about microcontrollers? Is your microcontroller project lonely? Brush off the dust or put together a microcontroller project and bring it down to share at the first ever NYC Resistor Microcontroller Study Group. We’ll have tables set out for you to set your projects out on. If it’s not done or doesn’t work, bring it anyway!
What: NYC Resistor Microcontroller Study Group
When: 7:30-9:30 PM
Where: Lemurplex [map]
NYC Resistor Exists!!! Peter, George and Bre met to figure out a ton of logistics, get the flickr group set up, and take care of organizational business!
