‘Technology’ Archives
University of Maryland robotics open house
My friend Erica Kane, from HacDC, recently went to an open house at the University of Maryland's robotics department. This is a cool thing to do, if you live near a school that has such a department (or some other tech discipline you're interested in). Call them up and see if/when they're doing an open house. Erica wrote up a little report of her [...]
Big week for ARM
ARM had not one but two articles in the NYTimes this week (same author, Ashlee Vance)... ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items... ARM, which designs the low-power chips that go into just about every cellphone sold today, commands a prime position when it comes to one of the next major technological revolutions. This is the so-called Internet [...]
Creative D200 Bluetooth Speaker : Review
Those guys at Creative sure are nice to let us at MightyGadget test their stuff. No honest that’s the truth. I’ve been a big fan of the company since the days when PCs were getting into our homes. Yes i was a young whipper snapper but I loved taking my PC apart and upgrading components and Creative Sound Cards were always the best and when I [...]
Nokia E7 : Four Inches of Business!
Mobile phone’s used to big. That couldn’t be helped, the technology in it’s youth could only mean that phones had to be big. Then they got small, real small. You can get a phone in your watch. Recently however it seems ok for phones to be big again but the new Nokia E7 is more than a big phone, it’s a big “business” phone. Like [...]
LG Optimus : One & Chic
LG held a press conference today and from it came two new “Optimus phones”. The main two revealed are the Optimus One and the Optimus Chic. Both have been knocking about the rumour threads for a while but now they’ve got there official status from LG and despite the addition of Android 2.2 “Froyo” OS to the phones the specs aren’t as [...]
Creative Zen Style 300
Another review to do another Creative product for us at MightyGadget to tell you all about. Today it’s the Creative Zen Style 300, a compact mp3 player on the low cost side that still offers plenty of options. For anybody familiar with Creative’s Mozaic mp3 player this is the newer version of that but not all that different. Click on to read [...]
Open source pick & place machine
Tim from Boston, MA, uploaded his design for a pick & place head for a CNC machine to Thingiverse. This is a vacuum pick-and-place head design for automated electronic assembly. It features a stepper-driven rotary head with Luer-Lock port for interchangeable needles, and a feature for attachment of an "eyeball" style Webcam for optical [...]
Send MIDI over USB for cheap
If you've ever tried to interface a microcontroller-based MIDI project to a computer, you know it can be kind of a pain. Although MIDI ports are essentially the same thing as a serial port, they run at a slightly different baud rate, and most computer operating systems see them as two completely different things. Stephen Hobley has been trying [...]
Self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself
Self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself @ KurzweilAI... MIT scientists have created a novel set of self-assembling molecules that can turn sunlight into electricity; the molecules can be repeatedly broken down and then reassembled quickly, just by adding or removing an additional solution. In an attempt to imitate the [...]
Asus N53 and N73 : Bang & Olufsen Collaboration
Asus as ever is pushing the boundaries of home portable computing having recently released that they would be collaborating with the sound whizzkids at Bang & Olufsen to take portable audio from a computer to the next level. The Danish maestros have developed SonicMaster technology, a high-quality speaker and software system to deliver the [...]
