As you can see here in the Grant Rules doc (http://goo.gl/BPXLmQ) Wyolum promotes the third edition of its Innovation Grant: access to the community here https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100683109282570407663 In support of Open Hardware, we are pleased to announce a grant opportunity for up to $2000 (USD) to the most qualified applicant. Entries will be evaluated on: Innovation Technical feasibility Commercial…
This post is about a light animation game that can light up your Christmas. There’s Bluetooth, Android and audio files: a perfect festive mashup. A spectrum analyzer will help us color the winter festivities. Every year at Christmas we always want to try something new for lighting up our decorations: everyone wants to impression…
[youtube id=”T4i3QkSMm18″ width=”620″ height=”360″] Phonebloks and Project Ara Few days ago, after the presentation of the joint venture between Phonebloks and Motorola, called Project Ara, that I pretty enthusiastically commented earlier on this blog, we reached out to Phonebloks website with a contact request. Surprisingly enough we got very soon a very kind response from…
Just few weeks ago, I’ve been informed for the first time about the existence of an Open Source Hardware Startup called Atadiat, operating in Syria. I stumbled upon the news since a friend shared a tweet mentioning the Shamduino board (an Arduino inspired board) and the fact that the board was basically made out of…
With the new RN-42 Bluetooth module we created a Bluetooth remote control board and transform it into an Android Based system: a board that manages input/output and it’s equipped with four outputs relays and four optically isolated inputs, that can be controlled via Bluetooth. At the software layer, the unit sports three operation modes: manual,…
After the Yun presentation post, we are going to present a simple hacking project that is cool to get familiar with the Yun features. In this post, as first taste of using Arduino Yun, we propose an example about using the Temboo API, coupled with the Bridge library to send a Tweet in correspondence of…
[iframe_loader src=”http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/xygh55″ width=”520″ height=”370″] After seeing this wonderful piece of work several times around Italy fairs, first in Codemotion and then also during the Maker Faire in Rome, we decided that we are so much in love with this incredible project that we wanted to present it through the words of its creator, Antonio Ianiero,…
This post introduces in details one of the latest boards from the Arduino Team: a board that we still didn’t cover that much on the blog. YÚN’s DNA is that of the Arduino family lately open to new requirements and perspectives: Embedded Linux, Ethernet and WiFi with a board that is easy to use and…
As you probably know if you have one, the overall printing quality of the 3Drag printer is very well suited for the creation of useful items: this time we have created a container for the autonomous printing system. This post, by the way, could really be a good inspiration and guideline not only for the…
I should have written this report on Monday last but I was so tired after four days in Rome at the Maker Faire, and with so many things to talk about, that I decided to have a few days off. Which was a stroke of luck because some of questions I wanted to ask the…
If you have not yet discovered project Farmbot, this interview will be a revelation to you. The project in question, has the ambition to bring digitalization into one of the oldest processes in society, that of agriculture. The vision behind “precision agriculture” is particularly interesting and so Open Electronics decided to interview Rory Aronson, the…
A few days ago we showed you how to use the Raspberry GSM shield using the arduPi library created by Libelium and available under the GNU General Public License that you can download from Cooking Hacks. Now we’ll see a further functioning mode, one that allows you to interact directly with the serial port using…
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