FYI: RAD (Ruby+Arduino) MIDI bounty

A quickie, I found this very interesting. I want to have happened, already: Ruby Arduino MIDI bounty. Ain’t it cool? He is enticing you and me with some undefined hardware bounty. And pointing to GitHub as the place where you should upload your RAD-compatible MIDI library. Note to self: RAD uses some language transformations to …

SMAPLER v2 kits build report

All in an afternoon’s work. Two Smaplers, built from kits. Our first kits, ever. Pictures. You came for the pictures, right? A week ago, I bought two kits for an Arduino shield that had audio capabilities and a PS/2 connector. The kit was called SMAPLER. I intended to build the kit together with David, so …

SMAPLER v2 for Arduino has PS/2 connectors

overall view of the first SMAPLER Originally uploaded by dcuartielles I have an Arduino. I have access to a couple of neat PS/2-connected card-readers from ye olde times. The Arduino has no PS/2 connector. Fail? Maybe. A guy from the Arduino core team (the long-hair to the right) lives in Malmö, my town. He’s made …

Superfish, activated on click

Update: Fixed link to patch. Thank you, helpful commenters! You fix the Web! Or, onclick, as people say. (This is Google fodder, so I include alternative spellings of clicking – there I go a third time.) I just want you to know that this one person released a great fix, a patch really, for Superfish. …

Open Source book on Open Source Hardware?

Went to the post office to pick up a book. Open Source Hardware Vol. 1 arrived today. Well-wrought, and shaped like a Gary Larson album. Wow. Page 173 says the book will be an open source project, an editable wiki, where you can edit and add to it. Projects at Liquidware seems like a good …