 Phil and Limore from Adafruit took a trip to the Arduino manufacturing facility in Italy, it turns out that there are many facilities that perform the various functions needed to produce the boards. They were nice enough to share their pictures for everyone to enjoy. As big as Arduino is I was surprised at how modest the facilities are. To see a ton more pictures of the facility
Get ready for a Smell-o-Vision system called SMELLIT. A company in Paris, Olf Action will be taking a stab at this technology that seems to have been around the corner for ever. The styling of the device is great, it looks like you could fly it around the room when it isn’t being used to make your room smell like a bathroom. You can see a list of the
Marc de Vinck from Make is at CES and is hunting down all of the stuff that we think is cool. Check out this neat Phone Robot called Romo. It works out to be quite an expensive robot considering it holds your smart phone, as long as it doesn’t take a tumble down the stairs I think your phone is quite safe though. There is a developer section for
Those who are having foot lights in their stairway, then acme663ryo has an interesting stuff for you. According to acme663ryo, your foot lights are having epoxy pools of glass in the knot holes. These can be triggered by any light motion sensor, which in turn drives a solid state relay. The relay during its active cycle switches your DC power supply ON and through which you can connect your LED lights. In
So this year Hacked Gadgets will not be at CES but we are following the coverage and will be featuring some crazy gems that we see. This Tamaggo 360 Camera is sure to inspire some new photo taking. There have been devices out there that have taken 360 pictures before but none of them look and operate as simply as this one does. Have a look at the
Check out this cool Laser Cut Hand Bowl Instructable, I can just imagine a ton of laser cutters running today cutting this design out. Penfold Labs designed this using a number of different processes described below. If you are interested in purchasing one instead of building one you can get one in the Instructables store. “Here’s a small bowl I made from interlocking layers of birch plywood. I designed
 Thanks to Daniel Kramnik who is a high school junior from Massachusetts for sending in his award winning DIY Digital Salinometer project. If you have never heard of a Salinometer before you can learn more about it here. The system is easy to troubleshoot since it is completely modular, since it is mounted to a piece of acrylic you can trace out circuits from the front and back of
