ARDUINO DRIVES synthetic SPIROGRAPH
The holidays always remind us of our favorite toys from when we were kids. Johnny Astro, an Erector set, and — of course — a Spirograph. [CraftDiaries] has an Arduino machine that isn’t rather a Spirograph, but it sure reminds us of one. The Arduino drives two stepper motors that connect to a pen that …
LIVESCRIBE SHUTS DOWN developer PROGRAM
[Kelly] sent in a tip saying that Livescribe, the company behind a remarkable smartpen able to record handwriting, was shuttering the developer program by taking down their dev forums and removing the SDK, taking away the ability to write custom apps. [Kelly] posted about this on her blog. Livescribe has a thriving community around it …
USING fishing wire TO HOLD IN PIN HEADERS IS A NIFTY trick
working on a breadboard, one can get used to the benefits of being able to readily plug and unplug jumper wires to reconfigure a project. One could only dream of doing so with PCBs, right? Wrong! [Stewart Russell] recently shared a tip on Twitter on how to do just that, with the help of a …
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