The registration desk hasn’t opened yet at ShmooCon 2009, but we’re already running into old friends. We found [Larry Pesce] and [Paul Asadoorian] from the PaulDotCom safety weekly podcast showing off their most current ShmooBall gun. ShmooBalls have been a staple of ShmooCon from the very beginning. They’re soft foam …
When we first saw [Chris Paget]’s cloning video, our reaction was pretty ‘meh’. We’d seen RFID cloning before and the Mifare crack was probably the last time RFID was actually interesting. His ShmooCon presentation, embedded above, caught us completely off-guard. It’s very informative; we highly recommend it. The hardest part …
Is there space on Mars as well as Europa for adorable robots? [NASA] — working together with [UC Berkley] as well as [Distant focus Corporation] — have the answer: PUFFER, a robot influenced by origami. PUFFER — which means Pop-Up Flat-Folding Explorer Robot — is able to sense objects as …
There are times when you might want an odd-value resistor. rather than run out to the store to purchase a 3,140 Ω resistor, you can get there with a good ohmmeter and a willingness to solder things in series and parallel. but when you want a accurate resistor value, and …
[Kiethrobot] developed this six legged little helicopter. You can see that it is fairly mobile. You can also see that it doesn’t really make it off the ground really well. He should have gotten much more power out of it though because he destroyed it in a crash the day …
Ah, photo vs. AVR, the never-ending battle of electronic style supremacy. Some people vow by Atmel’s AVR microcontrollers, while others are wrong. [majenko] is firmly planted in Microchip’s photo camp, so he composed up a great comparison of Atmel’s AVR versus Microchip’s photo household of microcontrollers. The results aren’t that …
[Ryan] wrote in to tell us about his partially 3D-printed steadycam mount on Instructables. In the video after the break, the cam does stay quite consistent through some basic tests. The base is a paint roller handle, and the device works by using a long arm on the bottom with …
Here’s a job influenced by a extremely polished art piece. [Tobias] has been working on his own RGB LED clock which utilizes one light for every minute in an hour. He was influenced to begin the job after seeing the Equinox clock. that a person utilized a bit PCB for …
[Jeremy] chosen up a Vexplorer quite cheap, as well as wished to make it better. He chose that Arduino controls would most likely be a good upgrade. He patched into the controller as well as installed a good looking plug to interface with the Arduino. He states the software application …
We’re huge fans of surface install parts. SMD elements are cheaper, take less board space, as well as don’t need drilling; all the coolest new parts are only offered in SMD packages. Smart Tweezers are an advanced multimeter tool particularly designed to test as well as troubleshoot SMD circuits. It …