OPEN HARDWARE SUMMIT LOOKING FOR SUBMISSIONS.
– April 27th, 2012
The Open Hardware Summit is currently seeking submissions for talks, posters, and demos, to be presented at the third annual event on September 27th in New York City. This year’s summit is chaired by Catarina Mota and Dustyn Roberts and happening under the direction of the newly-formed Open Source Hardware Association.
From the call:
The Open Hardware Summit is a venue to present, discuss, and learn about open hardware of all kinds. The summit examines open hardware and its relation to other issues, such as software, design, business, law, and education. Submissions are due by May 31, 2012 BY 11:59pm (EST). Notification of accepted proposals will happen by July 8th, 2012.
As with last year, I’m going to be coordinating the review process for the talks. So, please, if you’re interested in presenting at the Open Hardware Summit,check out the call and send us a proposal!
WE’VE BEEN BOT’ED: FORUM PROTECTION SOFTWARE TO BE DEPLOYED FRIDAY 26TH 9.30AM CET
– April 26th, 2012
We have been bot’ed, it is kind of cool to show this image where we have 123.456 users in the forum, but it is not really true. We have experienced a pretty nicely made attack to the forum. Not that the machine slowed down, but we got zillions of new users … about 10x more users per day as we used. Check this graph:
123.456 users on the Arduino forum .. yei!
We will erase all the 40.000 non-existing users from the forum as well as implement a whole lot of new patches to the software that will improve the work the moderators are making in the system. We are going to be working tomorrow, Friday 26th between 9.30AM and 11.00AM CET. You may experience small downtimes as we will be implementing incremental changes to the software making sure they work in production.
FINALLY THE ROBOTGRRL INTERVIEW!
– April 24th, 2012
A girl passionate about building robots with a twitter handle @RobotGrrl. Host of the popular Robot Party on google+, Erin speaks, so does her Robotbirrd! 
Via:[Adafruit]
PRINT BROADWAY DISCOUNT STICKERS USING ARDUINO
– April 24th, 2012
A weekend project by Adafruit to print announcements and discount coupons from the internet.
This project uses an Arduino Uno, an ethernet shield, a thermal printer (aka receipt printer) and a Staples easy button to print out the current discount percentages available at the tkts times square booth for Broadway shows.
A beautiful tutorial accompanies the project.
Via:[Adafruit]
HTML BASED AVR COMPILER AIMS TO MAKE ARDUINO DEVELOPMENT ON IOS POSSIBLE
– April 24th, 2012
Programming arduino using your smartphone? Indeed! It is possible if we have the IDE in HTML5. With similar thoughts Tadpol started building a browser based AVR compiler. The project is still open for contribution at Github. Hackers, please contribute!
As seen on the screenshot, the current version uses various buttons to input the code.
The project, named Avrian Jump, uses a simple ladder language to feed the compiler, with several different options for output. The most interesting in our mind is a WAV file which can be used to program an AVR from the audio out of your device. That would make programming as simple as connecting the specially modified AVR to your headphone jack. There’s also an ASCII output which allows you to save your programs for later alteration, S19 output for AVRdude programming, and an assembler output for debugging purposes. It’s hard to
Via:[Hackaday]
HIGH-TECH BLANKET-CUM-3D MODELLING TOOL
– April 24th, 2012
3D image input is often a challenging task when it comes to irregular objects like a human body. Here is where an arduino, tilt sensors and a little math comes to the rescue. University of Toronto’s Responsive Architecture at Daniels school created one such blanket.
The petals are made up of a conductive material, which are linked to larger network of conductive threads all in the shape of a hexagon. The loads of tilt sensors send the data of their position with respect to a central Arduino-powered computer which is then able to calculate the slopes between the various flowers and petals on the blanket. Thereby giving out a 3D input to the computer.
The concept will be widely applicable to interaction design, video game controls and numerous other fields.
CONTROL YOUR DREAMS USING DIY GOGGLES
– April 24th, 2012
Lucid dream is a state in which you can control what you dream. Be it winning a million bucks worth lottery, or dating your favorite cine star, it is possible to control your dreams using these DIY goggles!
Simple to build and a nice weekend hack for the bored, these goggles are pretty cost effective and impressive. Put together a pair of glasses, LED, Arduino, a battery and some other minor paraphernalia and you are ready to live your favorite dream in your resting time!
Via:[Hackaday, Madscientist]
HACK THE XBOX 360 CONTROLLER USING ARDUINO
– April 24th, 2012
In case you are a hardware-hacker with no care for warranty, open up your Xbox 360 controller, attach an arduino uno to the circuit, program it, and turn it into a modded controller chip, which can be reprogrammed to be compatible with new games too!
The parts list and the instructions can be found here.
Game on! \m/
Via:[Instructables]
LIE DETECTOR USING ARDUINO
– April 24th, 2012
The next time you want to find out which of your little cousins ate the cookie from your jar, you can use your Arduino and everyday electronics items to make your own lie detector!
Materials needed: Arduino, aluminum foil, velcro, wire, a 10 K resistor, breadboard
A detailed step-by-step approach is taught here.
So snap on and find the cookie monster! >:)
Via:[mad-science, Dangerousprototypes]
‘CUBICLE FUN’ JUST LEVELLED UP WITH ARDUINO
– April 20th, 2012
In case you hate the office music next time, just throw a paper at it. Just not in front of the boss! 
Agency republic in London chose to tackle this issue in an R&D project by putting up a poster in the office that says “change the tune” and when you hit it with a piece of paper (or other things handy) an Arduino powered simple piece of hardware in the poster changes the tune on Spotify.
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