I saw some days ago a pointer to The ultimate low-cost dev board. Or at least looks pretty close to it. The shrimp is a very, very minimal Arduino-compatible circuit meant to control all the pins on an ATMega328. The components only cost about £1.40 ($2.25 USD) when bought in volume, making it perfect for →
Slideshow: A History of Intel x86 in 20 CPUs article presents the chips that built the PC revolution from 1971 to 2012. →
Google has rolled out a new web experiment for Chrome. 100,000 Stars: Google’s latest Chrome experiment taps NASA to visually explore the Milky Way. This one is a visualization of the locations of over 100,000 nearby stars (pulls data from astrometric databases and catalogs). Using Chrome’s WebGL, CSS3D, and Web Audio support, you can zoom →
Since its introduction of the iPad nearly two and a half years ago, Apple has held onto the lion’s share of the tablet market. Welcoming the son of iPad–introducing the iPad Mini article tells that with the 7-inch market growing at an exponential rate, it was only a matter of time before Apple would address →
The Open 7400 Logic Competition has brought awareness to open hardware and software, and fosters understanding of the building blocks of modern integrated circuits. What can you build with basic logic chips? 7400 Logic Competition winners are announced According to competition results page all the entries were amazing! There are quite a few of them. →
I have been following news around patents lately. I have followed what happens on patent field because I am an inventor that has made some patents and being referenced on some other. The patent situation seem to be quite insane right now, especially on smartphone field. I can agree the comment Patent law is a →
How Long Will My Battery Last? Standardized benchmarking methodology compares microcontroller power consumption in battery-powered applications →
Understand How & Why a Dev Kit Should Be Your Design’s Starting Point article tells that many electronics designs start with a development kit. That’s a very good point to start. The processor vendors usually offer them at very reasonable prices, or free in many cases. I think that another good starting point are many →
PacketLife.net Cheat Sheets page has the best collection of networking cheat sheets I have seen. If you’re doing anything network related, these are definitely good to have on-hand. This is absolutely fantastic set of cheat-sheets. You can find here cheat sheets for example for many protocols, common ports, sub-netting, tcpdump options and Wireshark filters. →
MaKey MaKey is an interesting gadget that allows you to easily build your own touchpad keyboard to your PC. →