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  • Jump in to this 5 week course and learn Processing to create basic software apps, make your own drawing and animation tools, create a GUI to control your software and use an Arduino to provide physical controls for those tools.
  • Famous for teaching people to solder all over the world and for many other reasons Mitch is visiting eastern Europe in mid September to spread his knowledge and maybe help form some hackerspaces along the way.
  • RACER is an analogue recreation of a coputer racing game in the style of the classic WipeOut. It consists of a modified vintage arcade machine, a RC model car with a wireless camera, an a self-constructed racetrack/game level made entirely from cardboard.
  • E1 is an open source hardware kit for bringing synthetic intelligence to electronics and robotics projects. "If you're writing code for a project, and you know what it should do but not necessarily how to do it, interactive training can sometimes be easier," designer Josh Eckstein notes.
  • Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo would be proud. Harrison Krix's attempt in creating a Daft Punk helmet has been most successful. See the video after the jump!
  • The Internet-Chess-Table enables one to play chess games on the freechess.org internet server on a 3D board with 3D pieces.
  • We don't know if to laugh or cry at this one : a power strip that is ok (even fun) to insert conductive things and water in.
  • The MSP-EXP430G2 LaunchPad is an easy-to-use flash programmer and debugging tool that provides everything you need to start developing on MSP430 Value Line devices.
  • What ideas would you come up with if you hung out with a molecular biologist, a mechanical engineer, a computer programmer and an artist - and happened to be sitting next to a lab?
  • VirtualBreadboard (VBB) is an application for rapidly modeling, simulating and synthesising high-level microcontroller based electronic circuit applications.