By Natalie Nelms Not only mans best friend, the Pick n Paste is now a makers best friend! Carbide Labs, a startup out of Philadelphia, is developing a desktop circuit assembly tool that is enough to melt any makers heart thanks to its capability to cut both the time and cost of a prototyping project. […]
Crowd funding is all the rage and with good reason. Starting up a new business venture means taking risk. If you can clearly articulate the value of what your business will create, others will be willing to share in that risk. Sometimes you share the risk with a bank in the form of a loan or […]
by Jason Kridner TL;DR – $99 BeagleBone Black GamingCape from CircuitHub In last year’s TI intern contest, Max Thrun amazed us with his incredible video of the making of the GamingCape that turned a BeagleBone Black into a handheld-gaming console running on AAA batteries. If you are like me, you immediately wanted one of your […]
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By Natalie Nelms Its amazing what you can create when you pair a few spare parts lying around and an inventive imagination. In this instance, these ingredients gave birth to BeagleBot a small test robot for localization algorithms! After seeing demos of SLAM at home brew robotics society meetings, along with people using Kinects […]
By Natalie Nelms Oh, the places youll go when using three BeagleBone Blacks! Maker and engineering expert Trefor Delve explored this idea by developing a parallel simulation proof of concept that ran on three Sitara-processor-powered BeagleBone Blacks in order to implement a MIL-STD-1553 bus system and interface to real and virtual hardware. There is always […]