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Digg button on Fast Company

adafruit — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:51:07 +0000

Fast Company has a story about Digg, they used our Digg button photo and while we don’t mind – it would have been cool to throw us a link or note where they got the image.

The Digg button is an open source hardware project that was/is meant to teach beginners electronics in a very low cost way, it’s a counter that can be hacked and modded – we give a % of the profits to the EFF each year ($1 from each kit sale goes straight to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization that supports online rights.)

OSH FTW!

adafruit — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:52:29 +0000

OSH FTW!

Digg Button kit with automatic update – online to physical world!

adafruit — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:07:03 +0000

Via the Adafruit forums, Digg Button kit with automatic update – online to physical world! Erik writes -

I’m just learning about electronics and bought the Digg Button kit to get my feet wet. Before I built it I thought it would be fun to try to mod it to automatically update the display with the Digg count from an actual Digg submission.

From flickr

ladyada — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:21:23 +0000

Jeff uses his digg button kit as part of his cold-turkey soda cessation….

Digg Button Kit Shirt

ladyada — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:05:33 +0000

Thydzik made the best digg button kit mod ever…a Digg Button Shirt! ZOMG, check out this video. More info at Instructables….

Adafruit & DIGG raise $500 for the EFF!

ladyada — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:00:05 +0000

We sold out of our first run of 500 Digg Button kits and here’s the check that’s going in the mail!

Thanks to Phil Torrone, Kevin Rose & everyone who contributed $1 by purchasing a kit!

DiggX, hacking your Digg Button

ladyada — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:31:56 +0000

AtomicSalad went out of control with his Digg Button hacking. Not only a clever removable programming interface! Not just new firmware! Also, a music video staring Angelina Jolie as The Digg Button. Look well, children, one day you will be studying this man’s work in History of Modern Film

Read all about it at instructables

Digg Button Kit

ladyada — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:51:18 +0000

Social bookmarking integration is all-the-web2.0-rage. But looking at the costs, can you really afford to run your own? Server upgrades, bandwidth allocation, spam management…What a headache! Here’s a simple way for you to add a social-networking system to anything you own, for a minimal investment: The Digg Button Kit!

The Digg button is a very simple beginner electronics that teaches how to solder and program microcontrollers. Once made, this basic electronic project mimics the popular Digg.com website: each time you push the button, the button flashes “Dug” and increments the counter up to 999 “diggs”. The project is completely open source and documented, including parts list, schematics and code. For those who don’t want to try to chase down the electronic components, we have a full kit ready to go in the Adafruit webshop.

We already have a couple simple projects to get people started: how to power it from USB or batteries, how to make it scroll a simple message, etc. We’ll be updating the mods as more people get their hands on the kits.

For every sale of the Digg button kit we’re giving $1 to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The kit is currently in its first release; new colors and other projects will be available. We even have a plan for making it interface directly to digg.com! (Stay tuned…)