Monthly Archives: January 2011

Open Circuits

Open Circuits is a wiki for sharing open source electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, ports and parts libraries. This includes open hardware Music Players, atomic microscopes, PC, PDA and mobile phones, and batteries. This interesting open source project could be … Continue reading

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Benjamin Libet and Pre-empted decisions

In response to Maturana and Varela’s proposition that on organism only exits in the present, and what constitutes the present-past-future, I tried in vain to remember the specifics of the work on time consciousness by Benjamin Libet. Here are two … Continue reading

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Saiko5 WiFi enabled LED light fixture

Wireless controllable LED lights! The Saiko5 Light Fixture incorporates a Light Brick 5 and a Light Shield 7 along with case, power supply, and Arduino UNO into a single fixture with the Saiko5 Firmware is installed on the included Arduino … Continue reading

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555 timer contest!

The biggest, newest, most-independently conceived 555 timer design contest the world has ever seen!, has an Art category: Use 555’s in a unique way to enhance music, sounds, animation, performances, art pieces, etc. There will be less focus on unique … Continue reading

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HP’s new “Dick Tracy” watch

Thanks Sean for this article from Mercury News article about a new HP’s new research with flexible displays.

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Spandexman

Shop Spandexman.com for all your spandex needs—superhero outfits, lucha libre masks, anything form fitting.

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Paper Circuits

Flickr set showing off Leah Buechley’s (of Lilypad fame) paper computing. Includes videos! Plus, a post in the Hi-Lo tech wiki, showing off making circuits with conductive paint Ciat Lonbarde‘s paper circuits. Paper Circuitry at Home: Electric Origami shows how … Continue reading

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Galvanic Skin Response

I was doing some research for a project that might use GSR and wanted to post some resources that might be useful. Chris3000 has a nice page with links and info describing his own work, including a couple schematics. Here’s … Continue reading

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Kid Chameleon Helmet

Afterglow Visual Productions created a cool helmet? for DJ Kid Chameleon out of a scavenged Mac Plus, and iPad and a bicycle helmet. Very cool.

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Cell Phone sniffer

A couple of cell phone detector circuits: Cell phone detector with schematic, explanation, and another. Some students last year tried these out with mixed results, might need to be investigated further. ***UPDATE*** found a couple useful links for more general … Continue reading

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