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Bleeding edge: Arduino on Raspberry Pi
Well, Arduino doesn’t “just work” even with the instructions I gave in my last post. If you don’t “prepare” your distro carefully, you’ll run into the comm problems I did (and thanks to Mark Amos, for...
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Introducing Raspbery Pi à la mode
Our first prototypes are back, and working quite well! SeeedStudio fabricated the prototype boards and quickly sourced the parts. The boards were of excellent quality. We ran into a few hiccups along...
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These instructions are for setting up an Arduino and alamode friendly environment on the Pi. Gathered from many sources (see earlier posts) and updated with the latest info. Download and install Linux...
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I just got back from the Open Hardware Summit and World Maker Faire. It was fantastic and I spent a day and a half doing demos of Alamode and the Raspberry Pi in the Makershed. I’ll have more on that...
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AlaMode available for Pre-Order!
The Chinese national holiday is over, and production of Alamode has begun! Our current estimate is that they will be shipping on Oct. 25. We’ve put up 50 units for Pre-sale on the Wyolum website, so if...
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AlaMode: Web controlled train example
Update!: You can now buy AlaMode at Seeedstudios Here’s an example of using the AlaMode with the Raspberry Pi. We had a great time demoing the AlaMode at MakerFaire. We got invited to demo in the...
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CNC AlaMode
AlaMode is in stock and shipping now from Makershed and SeeedStudios. I’m a maker, and as a maker, I love tools. As a computer geek, I’ve long been interested in computer controlled tools. When Riley...
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Using GPS with AlaMode
We included a header for the UP501 GPS module on AlaMode. The UP501 is popular, and has the additional advantage of having a PPS output which can be used to do ultra-precise timing. Unfortunately we...
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Open Hardware Summit Photobooth
As you know, my Wyolum buddies and I partnered up with SeeedStudios to make a really cool e-paper badge for the Open Hardware Summit which took place last week. We wanted some cool ways for people to...
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NovaBooth – Improving the Open Source Photobooth
As you may have read here previously, we (the Wyolum Gang) created a photobooth for the Open Hardware Summit, for the purpose of customizing the e-paper badges we made for the conference attendees....
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