IPod Oscilliscope

Want one of these. Wow.

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Awesome USB Interfacing

It is not easy to create a seamless USB interface device using the Arduino environment. From my somewhat limited experience with Arduino (and Mac OS X in my case), any USB interfacing you do will be read as a serial device, making it a clunky method to create devices as essential as keyboards or game controllers.

It looks like those days may be over though.  There’s an awesome example over at the Make website of a new development/interface board called  Teensy USB. They hacked the Staples “Easy” button to insert synonyms to the word “awesome” in any document being written.

Both models have an AVR ATMEGA processor, and it looks to be quite compatible with the Arduino environment and many software platforms. Arduino compatability is achieved through the Teensyduino add-on  and the microcode loading software –  Teensy Loader – is available for Mac OS X, Linux, Win XP & Win 7/Vista.

Sadly I have not yet been able to try this but I can already think of a few projects in which I WOULD have used it.  More soon….

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brandontreb Developers Blog

Doing research for a software/hardware related job (first one in quite awhile…. maybe the economy IS picking up…) and found this very helpful blog with some extremely helpful posts. Specifically, I’m looking into a project that requires me to develop code that will send Twitter posts depending on such & such actions. Found this site via  his blog postings regarding developing Twitter apps.

Couldn’t find an “about” link though – so I don’t know who this mysterious fellow is though.

Zimoun Sound Sculptures

Really nice!

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Computers Add Like an Egyptian

Just saw this video of mathematician Michael S. Schneider explaining how modern computers & ancient Egyptians share binary methods of arithmetic. Its really neat to see how multiplication & division are achieved using binary. So simple – yet so powerful!

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Edward Horsford photography

Wow! Edward Horsford’s high speed photos of water balloons bursting are awesome!
Adding even more cool is the fact that he designed his own arduino based sound trigger to control strobes and camera.  There’s a great writeup about him on DIY Photography that tells a lot of his methods.

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Pencil Sculptures

Love this pic of pencil tip alphabet by Dalton Ghetti. Check it out at inhabitat.

BEE SOS

“Save our Swarm” Billboard in Devon written with live bees.

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Leafy Zip Ties

Lufdesign’s Leaf Tie – simple & fun.

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Things Organized Neatly

Great pix of things in just the right place.

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