Saturday, October 29, 2011

Maintaining a Laboratory Notebook

Maintaining a Laboratory Notebook

Why you might want to keep a laboratory notebook by Collin Purrington


Purrington, C.B. Maintaining a laboratory notebook. Retrieved ay’s 29 October, 2011, from http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/labnotebooks.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Open Design Engine

Open Design Engine is a web portal developed specifically to address the urgent need to publish not only the final plans but the entire design process for open source hardware projects. We like to think of it as the Source Forge for hardware. And while sites like Source Forge and LaunchPad are focusing on features to support software projects (such as demo web and database servers for web site projects), Open Design Engine is focused on the needs of hardware projects.

Bitcoin - P2P digital currency

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is an experimental new digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network.

Bitcoin is also the name of the open source software which enables the use of this currency.

The software is a community-driven open source project, released under the MIT license.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Discover Electronics



Discover Electronics

This course is an introduction to hobby electronics with a focus on building your own small projects.
















Build your own Arduino Controlled Robot


This guide will teach you how to build an Arduino controlled robot from parts found in the Maker Shed!
  • Author: Nick Brenn
  • Time required: A weekend at most!
  • Difficulty: Moderate

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Arduino Mini Sumo Robot

























Arduino Mini Sumo

Nor Cal Mars Rover Project



The Mars Society - Northern California Chapter

This group of enthusiasts is dedicated to furthering the cause of making manned missions to Mars with the possibility of colonization in the future. NASA approached the group to design and build a prototype for a future Mars mission.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Randy Sarafan

Randy Sarafan is an interstellar wrecking ball of immeasurable destruction.