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  • Do you feel like a hanging-down bat? Let´s build something to find out!

    Today´s article will teach you how to create your own FPGA-based tilt sensing device. It is one of those really thorough tutorials where almost nothing is left to your imagination but the infinite applications you may develop. Cool right? This project is based around the DEo-Nano board and its built-in tilt sensor. I am pretty…

  • Remember Playing Cowboys With A “Hand” Gun? Now It´s a Video Game

    Thanks to the work developed by a group of students at Cornell University, all you would need to do is to paint the tip of your finger in Red. This is not to fake that you are shooting that much that your finger is burning. This is because their project is based on this color.…

  • Would you like a free Zynq-based Digilent ZYBO dev board? Win one over at the ARM Connected Community

        It is not Open Hardware as per se, but it is FREE!! If you have a good project they pick get yourself a free ZYBO Zync ARM/FPGA board. The digilent ZYBO board based on the Xilinx Zynq SoC is a full-featured development board with 512Mbytes of DDR3 SDRAM, HDMI, VGA, Ethernet, MicroSD slot, OTG…

  • Working on Today Toaster in US-China Maker Competition!

    I’m in China now working with a team of young Makers on a a very special toaster that prepares you for the day by toasting the weather forecast onto your toast! Using the Intel Galileo board and a connection to the internet it will get the latest forecast and then use an Arduino sketch to…

  • Free Hamster Reflow Oven PCB’s for the asking!

    A couple months ago Hamster put together this wonderful project to make a “software-less” PCB Reflow Oven controller. This is a hardware only solution that should be very robust and responsive, there is no software to go awry! As is fitting for a PCB reflow oven project Hamster made a batch of the controller boards…

  • Papilio: The Untold Story

    Chris Taylor, over at Sparkfun, recently introduced us to the All Programmable Planet blog. There have been some great Papilio related blog posts there and in a conversation with Max Maxfield, the editor in Chief, he asked me about my background and motivation to make the Papilio. I promised him an email with the Papilio…

  • Gadget Factory IRC channel on Freenode.

    Gadget Factory is starting an IRC channel on Freenode, feel free to stop by and say hello! The IRC channel is hosted on www.freenode.net and is named #GadgetFactory. The chat room can be accessed online with Freenodes webchat page.

  • Barcode Genie Giveaway contest!

    The Hacked Gadgets Blog is running a “Name the Thing” contest with the prize for one correct guess being the Papilio Barcode Genie kit. Head over to Hacked Gadgets to put your guess in and get in the running for a free Papilio Barcode Genie kit.