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Pachube: The Internet Of Things

I just found out about Pachube over on the Make: Blog and am feeling really inspired. Pachube is just awesome! It is a service created by HAQUE design + research that “enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is [...]

Solar Powered Beam Bots

My 2 year old daughter has recently become interested in a couple of solar powered robots that I built a few years ago so I thought I would share them here. Both bots were built from instructions in Make Magazine vol. 06. The first one that I made was a ‘Trimet’. The Trimet uses a 1381-based solarengine with three 4700uF capacitors in [...]