Monthly Archives: March 2015

Print out your own wireless door lock

Posted on March 31, 2015 by robertwilkie

This is a nice build where the author uses an arduino like board with NFC built in to control a servo that locks/unlocks the door. The downside, the NFC board is $40. Bluetooth maybe a better…well cheaper…solution. The other thing … Continue reading →

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LightBlue Bean adds in Node-RED support

Posted on March 31, 2015 by robertwilkie

Lightblue bean is a lowpowered arduino like board that supports bluetooth. Its a nifty setup. Apparently the creators have added in Node-RED, which is like Node-js but for Internet of Things. Or so I understand. I wonder how well Node-* … Continue reading →

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Print out your own air-boat

Posted on March 31, 2015 by robertwilkie

At first I thought this was a kit, but no its the plans to print out a pretty nifty air boat. http://www.3ders.org/articles/20150329-learn-about-aerodynamics-and-have-fun-in-the-water-with-3d-printed-rc-airboat.html

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This is why you don’t text and drive

Posted on March 31, 2015 by robertwilkie

Cool video where on-dash cam’s show teenage drivers that are texting and run off the road. Thankfully none of them are hurt (I think). And the point of the video is to show how dangerous distracted driving is. http://www.wham1180.com/onair/the-morning-news-54835/new-aaa-video-shows-how-terrifying-13451995

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T-Mobile customer? Want to help improve there coverage

Posted on March 31, 2015 by robertwilkie

This is interesting cause it looks like T-Mobile is trying to find out if there coverage is real or not by having customers provide feedback to them. It would be interesting to see how this pans out, and I wonder … Continue reading →

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Build a simple phone scanner stand with PVC

Posted on March 31, 2015 by robertwilkie

OK for what looks like $10 in pipe parts (figure $3 for the pipe, and $1 per fitting) you can build a pretty sturdy stand for your phone to scan in pages of a book, or other stuff. Like stuff … Continue reading →

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$60 board to hack your car

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

OK estimated 60-80. The author designed a board, called CANard, to help sniff and program on CAN bus on cars. This would have been handy for me a few months back as I was struggling with figuring out how to program … Continue reading →

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Gawd…another bot I want

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

This looks like another nice kit, that goes for $200ish on kickstarter with plans to produce for $240/230ish. It can make a wall drawing, desktop drawing, eggbot, or a car based drawing robot. It uses an arduino and if you … Continue reading →

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New development tool for real dev’s for Arduino

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

A new tool came out for arduino called “Emrio“. Which is an IDE for arduino. It looks pretty powerful but its oriented toward more developer based folks than the average tinker. Have I played with it? Not yet but its … Continue reading →

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Build your own RPi portable game system

Posted on March 30, 2015 by robertwilkie

Neat built for a portable game system. It actually uses an arduino with the Raspberry Pi. The parts get a bit pricey (figure this could run 120 easy). I think it could be dropped down by 30 with a few … Continue reading →

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