October 2008

Wearable radios are coming for your clothes! The LilyPad XBee sew-on ZigBee boards just headed out for manufacture. We finished testing the final green prototype version, nudged in a few improvements and about four weeks from now they’ll be commercially available. Pricing and source to be announced when the boards go live. For now, we

The November 2008 issue of Wired Magazine just hit the stands. It features an article by Clive Thompson about open-source hardware that includes Botanicalls, with a picture of our new Botanicalls Kit. The article focuses on Arduino with great quotes from our friends at NYCResistor, where I’ll be co-teaching a class later this year. Look

Recently created a page in the projects area where I can post simple Arduino functions that I frequently reuse. There’s my standby for blinking a light along with code for buzzing a buzzer, smoothing some output over time, having an LED blink out a version number and a modification of the map() function that handles

I gave a talk on Sociable Objects yesterday at Microsoft’s Social Computing Symposium. to show all the great work around socially active physical computing at ITP. There was a live feed of the conference on O’Reilly Radar, but of course that’s done now so we’ll have to wait for Microsoft Research to publish talks. In

The EAGLE Layout Editor is a great way to design custom printed circuit boards for Arduino-based electronics projects. However, while Arduino uses the ATMEGA168 and ATMEGA8 microcontrollers from Atmel, the EAGLE libraries I’ve found online don’t use Arduino’s simplified pin labeling. Therefore, I’ve created a custom Arduino-AVR library for EAGLE with the proper Arduino pin