December 12, 2009

Warnlaser - Laser Pointer Review

Warnlaser sent in a few of their laser pointers for Hacked Gadgets to review. They sent in a 20mw Razor series and a 5mw tiger. The Razor is royal violet and the Tiger green. 20mW Razor The shiny black case is very nice, I have purchased many laser pointers and most of them don’t have this outer protective sleeve. The actual case of both lasers is very sturdy, much like

Open Source Hardware SD Datalogger

  If your project needs to store lots of data you need a datalogger, this Open Source Hardware SD Datalogger allows you to store tons of data onto an SD card. Via: Elektronika.ba "This project provides a general purpose library which implements read and write support for MMC, SD and SDHC memory cards. It includes low-level MMC, SD and SDHC read/write routines partition table support a simple FAT16/FAT32 read/write implementation"

Name the Thing Contest - 110

Thanks to 4D Systems for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a DK-160G1 (OLED development kit) and a SOMO-14D Embedded Audio-Sound Module to the winner. This is about $175 dollars worth of gear which will let you play with the latest and greatest in OLED technology. 4D Systems is an Australian based company, which is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of intelligent graphic display