I’m looking over the minimal LinuxStamp project and like what I see! Its basically a pared down linux board running on an ARM with USB, Ethernet and SD card slot. There are breakout pins for the chip on either side and the entire project is open source. See also: Make Controlle board, Chumby
Et Dukkehjem Audio Test from John Marshall on Vimeo.
This to-be art project from Root Of Two combines electronics, speakers and a table. The project uses an Arduino and a Wave Shield and will have some sort of motion sensor - perhaps it will start speaking when people get close to it?
This is exactly the kind of project I was thinking of when I designed the Wave shield so I’m glad to see it being used!
Apparently Mitch’s brain machine was not enough for mtbf0 who has built a RGB sine-waveform model using a Boarduino.
Andy Olivares built his own MP3 player using a PIC and the ubiquitous VS10xx chip.
As you can see, it is hardcore. Theres a lot of (bilingual) documentation on the site!
If you’ve built a Game of Life kit, you’ll eventually notice repeating patterns emerge. Some of them are quite cool like this glider
The next version of the Mintyboost is done and documented. This time it’s based on the LT1302 chip instead of the MAX756, which can provide up to 600mA (although I’ve found that with 2xAA’s it doesn’t really go past 450mA). The layout was also improved for better efficiency. The upgrade was necessary as the latest Apple products really need a lot of current to charge and hopefully they will work better now!
Bender Rodriguez used an Adafruit Motor shield to do some really terrifying toy hacking!
Read more about it at his page, with many photos of the dis/em-brainment
The Jefferson Lab has 4 physics projects that are really well documented and are great for demonstrations.
Micah Carrick has some really excellent AVR tutorials and detailed build notes on FailureBot5, a 5th-gen line following robot.
