I carry around too many battery powered devices:

• Motorola Q9h mobile phone
• Jawbone bluetooth headset
• Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
• IBM Lenovo T61p 15.4" laptop
• Dell M90 17" laptop

It's too bad the word mash-ups irritates me, I think it's the right idea. Continuing from the last post ( Read more... )

There is this particular quality that I associate with the ability to change and create a particular artifact. In programming I'd talk about metaprogramming, where one bit of code can operate on other bits of code. Since this idea is typified by MAKE Magazine, my first thought was to call this word 'MAKEness' but I think that metaprogramming in ( Read more... )

I've recently become infatuated with Steampunk. I bought vintage goggles and vintage radio earphones on ebay, should be fun to mod!

osnews.com mentions that the Open Graphics Project getting ready for pre-ordering of the initial hardware hacker's edition of the OGD1.

The hardware hacker's edition includes a mid-size FPGA (Spartan-3 XC 3S4000), 256mb of ram, two dual-link DVI plugs, and a bunch of other useful stuff. It's pretty much an FPGA development board tuned towards ( Read more... )

I have a project idea, and it requires an Arduino with the bluetooth module, and a controller.
The controller arrived yesterday, it's an N800.
This project also requires that I learn how to solder. Anyone in the Boston area want to help me out here?

I met one of the Arduino developers, David Mellis on Saturday evening. We talked about community building... Now I want to start up some sort of in-person hardware hacking community in Boston. I've often wished I had a clue about electronics, what better way to get started ( Read more... )