Posts Tagged ‘arduino’
DIY Workshop Madness
I am really excited to be teaching a series of open source software and hardware workshops this year at Yale as part of a new initiative we started called the Open Music Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to indoctrinat… er, expose faculty and students to the merits of FLOSS and open source hardware via workshops wherein…
Read MoreRaspberry Pi: first impressions
Getting the Pi Baked I got my Raspberry Pi in the mail yesterday — a long anticipated event. My excitement was slightly deflated when I realized I didn’t have anything I actually needed to make the damn thing run: micro USB for power, an hdmi-dvi adapter so I could actually see and control it, and…
Read MoreXbee: Information and Resources
The XBee RF radio is certainly not new technology, but it remains a tried-and-true means of communicating with microcontrollers in DIY electronic projects. For those of you unfamiliar with the XBee, it is an RF radio module that can be attached to a circuit via a breakout-board and used to communicate wirelessly with that circuit,…
Read MoreAwesome Open Source/ Free Multimedia Software List
Working with sound and video all the time, we here at scacinto inc have some across some incredibly excellent software that we like a lot (or at least like the looks of!) This list is not a “top ten” nor are these programs “players.” If you are looking for lists of players/codecs, I’m afraid you…
Read MoreEeePC + Ubuntu 10.04 + Arduino (Mini-Tutorial-of-Sorts)
1. I’m not good at tutorial writing. This is not because I do not have the willingness or ability to write tutorials, but because I lack the patience to write tutorials. However, because I seem to have 3x the number of difficulties that everyone else does doing anything, I have started taking copious notes whilst…
Read MoreGlossary
Glossary of terms often found on the pages of this site This page will be updated often. Algorithm: an algorithm is a general rule set (finite) that is used to solve a particular problem. An algorithm is best when it solves one problem and it does so efficiently, using the smallest number of instructions required…
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