Adafruit site update! We now have blog posts and flickr photos on our product pages! here’s a video (m4v) showing you what we’ve added! We’re really proud of these features, each product page will have posts from our blog right there to check out *and* projects from the Adafruit Flickr pool, our photos, your photos, anyone who has added them to the Adafruit Flickr pool and tagged them with the product name “arduino” for example. We’ll have a contest soon to get more folks adding their photos too!
If you’re using the iPhone 3Gs with a Mintyboostwe have added a note to the FAQ that has the precise resistor setup you would want to use if you’re going to mod your kit.
When hardware is as mashable as software, recipes for new gadgets that perform any imaginable function will be crowd-sourced and shared among a community of hardware hackers. Accelerating this trend toward open source hardware are prototyping platforms like Arduino and companies like Bug Labs, whose modular system of components anticipates the democratization of device design.
Added tone() and noTone() functions for frequency generation.
Added Serial.end() command.
Added precision parameter for printing of floats / doubles.
Incorporated latest version of Firmata.
Fixed bug w/ disabling use of the RW pin in the LiquidCrystal library.
No longer disabling interrupts in delayMicroseconds().
Fixed bug w/ micros() returning incorrect values from within an interrupt.
Fixed bug that broke use of analog inputs 8-15 on the Mega.
[environment]
Synchronized with the Processing 1.0.9 code base, bringing various fixes, including to a bug causing saving to fail when closing the last sketch.
Added support for third-party hardware in the SKETCHBOOK/hardware folder, mirroring the current structure of the hardware folder in Arduino.
Added Ctrl-Shift-M / Command-Shift-M shortcut for serial monitor.
Hold down shift when pressing the Verify / Compile or Upload toolbar buttons to generate verbose output (including command lines).
Moving build (on upload) from the applet/ sub-folder of the sketch to a temporary directory (fixing problems with uploading examples from within the Mac OS X disk image or a Linux application directory).
Fixed bug the prevented the inclusion of .cpp and .h (or .c and .h) files of the same name in a sketch.
Improved the Mac OS X disk image (.dmg): added a shortcut to the Applications folder, a background image with arrow, and new FTDI drivers.
Stop by for an EPIC “Ask an engineer” TONIGHT 10pm ET – 2/6/2010 tonight!
Topics will include:
A NEW MintyBoost model that will be released, charges NiMH cells. It’s awesome. Will be out in 1-2 months
A new DATALOGGER SHIELD will be out soon, we’re using it to test the upcoming MintyBoost
MONOCHRON clock kit is finished, parts are on the way – you can pre-order during the show (this will be the only pre-order time)
New blog & product page features will be released in the next week or so
Are we crazy for talking about upcoming products and projects? Time will tell! But the only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once!
We will have a 10% off code for ADAFRUIT KITS during the chat and 10% pre-orders for the MONOCHRON clock. It’s a crazyada superbowl sale!
Chat details!
Visit our new “chat” section on Adafruit at 10pm ET, Saturday nights
You will receive the Designs (Plans) for this RF Jammer in Electronic form. The Listing picture is for showing how the RF jammer looks like. This listing is only for the Design of the RF Jammer, it does not include the Device itself!!! You will receive RF Jammer Designs upon Payment. The Designs will be delivered to you on CD by Priority Mail.
2010 is shaping up to be a good year for beginners to jump in and share more of their projects we think.
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Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano wants to help us see them. Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos. “I wanted to create something that could communicate how awesome math is, to everyone,” she says. Graziano doesn’t go out looking for a specific function but lets one find her instead. Once she’s got an image she likes, Graziano whips up the numbers and tweaks the function until the graph it describes aligns perfectly with the photograph. See more of her Found Functions series at Nikkigraziano.com.
When graphed, this trigonometry function produces an ever-repeating wave of peaks and valleys that mirror the natural curves Graziano sees in plants. (October 2008.)
