All the breadboard layouts and circuit diagrams in “Building Wireless Sensor Networks” were created with Fritzing, a terrific initiative that’s creating an open-source electronics layout tool. Fritzing is designed to make it easy for prototypers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics and there’s lots of news about it this month: The […]
Benjamin Zaitlen just alerted me to the charming new BeeSim project he helped create at Indiana University. A paper about it was presented at the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. BeeSim uses the LilyPad XBee that I co-designed, to teach children the basics of honeybee behavior as an interactive and physical game. Want
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I’ve been working with Bug Labs on ideation and prototyping for miniBug, a new modular computing platform for sensor and device networking. The project has been a lot of fun and allowed me to work with two of my smart friends, Alicia Gibb of Bug Labs and Dan Steingart of CCNY. Some of our initial work
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We’re working with Sparkfun Electronics to re-release the Botanicalls kit. The brand-new version will use the WIZnet W5100 chip that’s supported by the Arduino Ethernet library. The plan is to have it available in February, along with updated code and instructions to empower your favorite plant to Tweet when it needs water, and thank you
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