Bats and moths have been engaged in aerial warfare for nearly 65 Myr. This arms race has produced a suite of counter-adaptations in moths, including bat-detecting ears. One set of defensive strategies involves the active production of sound; tiger moths’ ultrasonic replies to bat attack have been shown to startle bats, warn the predators of […]
Moths Use Anti-Bat Sonar Counter-Measures in an Aerial Arms Race Read More »
New Boards Coming! We’ve Just ordered the next revision (rev 1.0D) of the Sleepy Pi board which will hopefully be the board that is sent out to our Beta testers in a couple of weeks (barring any disasters). There have been a number of changes from the initial rev. 1.0C board. Apart from fixing the
Workshop Update: June 25th, 2013 Read More »
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Sleepy Pi family of boards and accessories for the Raspberry Pi. The first board in the family is the Sleepy Pi, which is essentially a Smart Power Management board for the Raspberry Pi that includes a low power Arduino that stays powered when the Raspberry Pi is
Once completed, the 64-core version of the Parallella computer would deliver over 90 GFLOPS of performance and would have the the horse power comparable to a theoretical 45 GHz CPU [64 CPU cores * 700MHz] on a board the size of a credit card while consuming only 5 Watts under typical work loads. For certain
Parallela – A Fantastic Platform for Machine Vision Read More »
…a robot fish that is able to swim and recognize tank edges and obstacles. We’ll find out how we can easily create it with common insulating material and a few servo motor controlled by Arduino. I love this project from Open Electronics. The movement is spookily realistic, I’ve just got to build one of these
Robofish: An Arduino Controlled Robotic Fish Read More »
When compiling a Bill Of Materials (BOM) for a project, you inevitably end up with a spreadsheet listing the parts and suppliers. Most PCB CAD packages can even output parts directly in CSV format which can be directly imported into a spreadsheet package such as Excel. Recently, I was playing around with a circuit in
Simple Farnell / Element14 Live Price & Stock Update in Excel BOM Read More »
Cypress Micro has announced the availability of production silicon for the first devices in their ground-breaking PSoC 4 family of ARM Cortex M0 chips. These are backed by the Pioneer development kit, which aside from packing some serious processing at a ridiculously low price, also features connector compatibility with a range of Arduino shields and
Cypress Launches the PSoC 4 Series Mixed Signal Micros Read More »
In their performance, The Itagaki Interface, Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield use their own bodies to challenge exaggerated representations of the human body in the fighting game, Dead or Alive, by Tomonobu Itakagi. The game features hyper-feminized and hyper-masculinized bodies in one-on-one combat. From Hopkins Duffield Seriously???? Really??? Not surprisingly this is all in the
Playstation Controller in a Bra Read More »
A better view of gravity confirmed by repeated experiments suggests a simpler way to travel through the air, space and the sea. More testing should produce an upward lift greater than 100% making my device a serious candidate for the little known and little contested $1.3 million Gode Gravity Award. Kickstarter is runnning a project
Anti-gravity Device on Kickstarter Read More »
I was recently discussing some equipment repairs and refurbishments with a new sub-contractor and the subject of replacing a number of leads came up. These leads were terminated on one end by the common 0.1″ molex KK connectors and I enquired whether they had a crimp tool for these. As they hadn’t, there followed a
A Comparison of Molex KK 0.1″ Crimp Tools Read More »
