Phys Comp Notes

Fabric Arduino

Jean-Baptiste Labrune sent this link from Leah Buechley, who does cool things with fabric and electronics.

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Galvanic Skin Response

Bjoern Hartmann and colleagues made this galvanic skin response sensor based on Michael Sung and Vadim Gerasimov's circuit design. This looks simple to build and useful for those projects where you want a crude lie detector, nervousness detector, etc. It's based on a d.tools board, so it should be easy to connect to any other microcontroller.

Thanks to Bjoern for the link.

YBox: Konfabulator for the TV

Tarikh Korula and Josh Rooke-Ley produced the Ybox, a device that produces TV overlays from the web, using a Lantronix Xport and a Parallax Propeller. Very nice project, very simple yet useful.

Thanks to Tarikh for the link.

Open Prosthetics Project

The Open Prosthetics Project is an open source project dedicated to the sharing and dissemination of knowledge on the construction of artificial limbs. This Wired article by Quinn Norton summarizes it nicely.

Sketching 06

Sketching in Hardware 1 (Sketching06) was a very useful workshop. Hosted by Mike Kuniavsky at the Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan in June 2006, it was a meeting of a handful of microcontroller module developers, teachers, and hardware designers. There was much conversation about what makes good microcontroller hardware, how best to teach it, and what we can do to make some of the various platforms out there more interoperable. I won't repeat everyone elses's comments, but below are some of the links that have come up.