GPS technology is cheap enough that we are starting to see GPS being used in some cool new ways. You may remember this GPS game that we featured before. Markus has made a project he calls the Little Reverse GeoCache, it is based on a similar project that was made by Mikal Hart. The box can only be opened when it is in the correct location, the trick is that
I had great fun working on a cool Multimeter Clock project which got picked up by Design News for their Gadget Freak series. I thought it would be cool to have a clock that looks like an old Simpson 260 multimeter. The clock consists of three multimeters, the first meter displays hours, the second displays minutes and the last displays seconds. A 16F628A PIC microcontroller keeps track of time and
Looks like Texas Instruments is making a big push into the hobbyist microcontroller market with this new product called the Launch Pad. All microcontroller manufacturers have a development platform available so what makes this announcement by TI something special? The price! You can pick up one of these for only $4.30 with free worldwide shipping if you get it from the TI store. You might have to put your order
