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Arduino-Powered Paintball Sentry Shoots With a Tweet (VIDEO)
iStrategyLabs is a digital firm that develops tools and services that foster community, online and off, for big organizations — putting out social-media marketing for GE during the 2012 Olympics, a social media-savvy concert for American Eagle, and a paintball … Continued
OpenROV: Open source Underwater Robots for exploration and education
OpenROV has developed a low-cost telerobotic submarine that can be built with mostly off-the-shelf parts (VIDEO)
e-Health Sensor Platform for Arduino and Raspberry Pi
The e-Health Sensor Shield allows Arduino and Raspberry Pi users to perform biometric and medical applications where body monitoring is needed by using 9 different sensors
Cooking Hacks announces medical biometric sensor for Arduino and Raspberry Pi communities
Cooking Hacks, the open hardware division of Libelium, a wireless sensor networks platform provider for Smart Cities solutions, has released a new e-Health biometric sensor platform to give the maker community tools that use Arduino and Raspberry Pi open source … Continued
Arduino Prebuilds Sensors, Joystick Into New Esplora Microcontroller
Arduino’s brand-new Esplora microcontroller, packed with prebuilt sensors and features, could indicate a move for the DIY electronics company toward a wider segment of the microcontroller market.
Telefónica and Arduino present a device with M2M communication to facilitate development of the internet of things
The new connected device represents the embodiment of the initiative presented at Campus Party 2011 and includes the option of remote management from a BlueVia website
Playing Angry Birds with a connected device
Rovio doesn’t know it yet but a couple hackers have come up with the next hot Angry Birds accessory (VIDEO).
DIY platform Tindie offers gadget makers the chance to display and sell their wares.
A battery-powered guitar amplifier, a USB pH meter and a robot that plays Angry Birds on an iPad are all among the homemade creations currently listed on Tindie, which aims to let makers buy and sell homemade gadgets, kits and … Continued
Governments pose greatest threat to internet, says Google’s Eric Schmidt
Schmidt warns about rise of censorship and government cybercrime in speech at London’s Science Museum.