Inside Coach – Smart Ball IMU Based Technology
To all my fans, readers and supporters … I just wanted to share a new exciting project to which I dedicated my last few months of work. This project summarizes …
Kickstater Campaign To Buy Off Radioshack stock and Convert To Maker Places
A while back I wrote a “Wake-up letter to Radioshack”. Since then, Radioshack made a substantial progress in the direction of being more appealing to the maker community, but now …
Learn Git in 15 minutes by practice.
I absolutely love this practical concept of learning GIT from Code School. Want to learn Git, but don
Shpero – a robotic project success story
I recently got my first Sphero and I have to admit as with any new product I was skeptical in the beginning. However just after few minutes of playing with …
Some (Free!) Feedback for TI MSP430 LaunchPad’s Development and Marketing Team
I finally got a minute to play with the MSP430 LaunchPad Kit I received, well almost for free from TI and immediately got some feedback to share with the development …
Arduino – to clone or not to clone ?
Microchip started marketing an Arduino clone called chipKit. Is this a correct decision to clone an open source platform as opposed to Texas Instrument's decision to create it's own platform …
Radioshack Replies
So we finally received a reply from Radioshack "Wake Up Letter to Radioshack" it was posted in the comments (and has been confirmed to be coming from Radioshacks corporate). Here …
IMU breakout boards from ST
Sign that someone from ST is reading the blogs – a series of breakout boards directly from ST , just couple of good ones: $26.95 STEVAL-MKI093V1 ( breakout for LYPR540AH …
ST launches Multi sensor application (MuSA) board platform
For $99 MuSA could be a nice hackable platform for all sorts of motion-enabled applications. It has a built-in accelerometer , LCD and a simple casing. Here is the description …
Wake-up letter to Radioshack – the hobbyists are back !
Have you been to Radioshack lately ? You might have needed a part for that last moment project, of course you could buy it online but you need it NOW! …
Hobby electronics is a serious business !
I can't help myself but notice that more and more electronics giants are starting to realize that hobby electronics is becoming a serious business ! Newark has just launched their …