One friend mentioned this: littleBits makes an opensource library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun. Looks interesting. There are even instructions how to join littleBits to LEGO. All the modules are open source, check GitHub for Eagle boards and schematics for all the littleBits modules. The aim →
A few weeks ago ARM celebrated its partners shipping over 10 billion ARM based chips in 2013. The bigger story was that the 10 billion in 2013 brought the cumulative total for ARM based processors to over 50 billion. Anandtek has nice articles where did those ARM processors go and how ARM business model works. →
I was some day wondering how to connect IO to Android smartphone or tablet. One well known option is to use IOIO or IOIO-OTG board connected to Android device USB port. The IOIO (pronounced “yo-yo”) is a board specially designed to work with Android devices and robust connectivity to an Android device via a USB →
I have bout a lot of stuff from Dealextreme web shop that I mentioned some years ago at my blog posting. I can still recommend that place like I did years ago. Now I have found another interesting looking place which have similar products sometimes even cheaper prices. Bang Good at http://www.banggood.com/ has a lot →
News on the problems on Internet security have been very frequent during last 12 months, and there does not seem to be any stop on news on Internet security problems. The news started with NSA relevations that showed ho much NSA spied on the Internet users and how it has weakened the technologies used to →
Here are two funny engineering videos for this weekend: The Expert is A Hilarious Sketch About the Pain of Being the Only Engineer in a Business Meeting. Watch it. Engineers is a funny music video full of Engineer Memes. After seeing this for the first time I asked myself: The heck did I just watch? →
This is a review of IBOX Mini multi-function single board computer from iTead Studio. The iBox has received some fame by raising funds through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo (it exceeded the intended target considerably). A friend gave tip that iTead Studio was looking for bloggers to review the iBox product. I submitted request to them →
New embedded boards seem to be coming all the time. The newest in the news is from developers of Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi foundation has a solution for the odd layout of the normal, consumer Pi: The Raspberry Pi compute module, a Raspi and 4GB flash drive, sans connectors, on an industry standard DDR2 →
Intel chip revenue declined in 2013 as worldwide total grew by five percent due to a focus on dwindling PC market. Intel is trying to get new growth by trying to enter actively to mobile and Internet-of-Things application. Internet of Things (IoT) is being driven by the convergence of increasingly connected devices, cloud computing, and →
The suspicions the National Security Agency has gone far beyond its mandate of gathering information for counter-terrorism and foreign intelligence purposes were confirmed when, on June 5, 2013, The Guardian released the first in a series of documents provided by Edward Snowden detailing the NSA’s unlawful spying activities. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has →