Oct 22

Meet the Arduino Due, the 32-bit board that’ll let your projects fly (really)

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Meet the Arduino Due, the 32bit board thatll let your projects fly really

As much as we love the Arduino Uno, it’s not the most powerful of hobbyist microcontrollers. Fortunately, the folks in Turin have just put the finishing touches on a 32-bit upgrade with buckets of potential. At the heart of the Arduino Due is an 84MHz Atmel CPU, based on ARM’s Cortex M3 Architecture, which is capable of being the brains inside your own flying drone or homemade 3D printer. It should start trickling out onto shelves from today, setting you back $49, but hey, that’s a small price to pay to automate your drinking adventures.

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Sep 03

Modder builds $150 open-source thermal imaging camera to help insulate his house (video)

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Modder builds $150 thermal imaging camera to help insulate his house video

Modder Andy Rawson thinks he’s found the secret to turning smartphones into super-cheap thermal imaging hardware. Inspired by his quest to find leaks in his old home and the high cost of professional gear, he set about building his own. A 64-zone temperature sensor connects to his iPhone via the dock, overlaying the data onto his camera display. He’s planning to open-source the $150 hardware, and an Android variant of the hardware is currently in the works — although details for both are currently thin on the ground, you can see his announcement video after the break.

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Aug 20

Digispark, Arduino’s unofficial kid brother, takes Kickstarter by storm (video)

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Digispark, the quartersized Arduino board takes Kickstarter by storm

Hobbyist Erik Kettenburg was concerned that the size and cost of Arduino stifled his ability to craft, so he set about developing Digispark. It’s an Arduino-compatible board, the size of a quarter, that offers a few pins at around a third of the cost of an Uno — so you don’t have to worry about taking projects apart when you’re done. Designed to be fully compatible with the Italian standard, it’s packing six I/O pins, 8k memory and a full USB connection amongst other things. The aim is to retail the gear for $12 a piece, and has been so popular that it’s made nearly $100,000 in Kickstarter pledges, smashing its original goal of $5,000. We’ve got video for you below, and you can still throw some cash Mr. Kettenburg’s way if you fancy getting your hands on one quickly.

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