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I’m not sure where I first heard about the Arduino micro-controller (it was probably in the pages of Make Magazine), but I’ve been hooked on this little piece of open source electronics ever since. It’s also been a great tool for instruction. Beginning this week, I am using the board to demonstrate micro-controller programming to [...]

Daniele Benedettelli has decided that the best way to bring Johnny Five back to life is through the use of the LEGO Mindstorms NXT Robotics System. We say if Johnny Five was ever to make a comeback, this is the ONLY way it should happen. The image we are presenting here only touches the [...]

The next time folks make fun of you for playing with LEGO bricks, show them this little clip and be prepared for their jaws to drop in amazement. The robot created by David Wegmuller is an excellent example of the engineering design possible with LEGO bricks and robotics elements. Wegnuller has this to say of [...]

You know those cases that hold blank CDs and DVDs in bulk? Well, Rodrigo Piwonka has devised a very good use for these cases and posted an example on his Flickr pool. We have included an image below.

We recommend a good washing before storing your bagel sandwich and definitely don’t try to burn your latest [...]

Looking for a weekend project to fill the void on Sunday evenings now that Battlestar Galactica has gone into hiatus until 2008 (is it us or does that just seem wrong)? Leave it to the origami experts in Japan to provide you with some very interesting and cool paper projects.
Just surf on over to the [...]

So you’ve got some of those old Atari 2600 cartridges hanging around in a dark closet somewhere and that soldering iron hasn’t been fired up in years. Benjamin Heckendorn has just the project for you. Build your own handheld Atari 2600. We call it the Portable Atari 2600 Advanced DS. Ben provides plenty of images [...]

I recently had reason to mount up an old Apple iSight Camera I had lying around to my PowerBook G4. I didn’t have the original mounting hardware, so what’s a geek to do? That’s right, break out the spare LEGO elements and build one myself. Composed only of non-modified LEGO elements and a yellow rubber [...]

It must be video day on GUOM because here’s yet one more for our LEGO and toilet paper fans.

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We love open source software. It’s cold and refreshing on a hot summer’s day. Well, maybe not cold, but here’s some open source goodness that is; the open source soft drink. While perusing our daily RSS feeds, we ran across a refrence to OpenCola on Wikipedia. Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry:
OpenCola is a [...]

I’m not sure about all of our readers, but I can tell you that my workspace is cluttered with cords and cables. As shown in the included images, I have cords coming out of my computer, cords coming out of my USB hub and cables dangling underneath my desk. Would you like some red or [...]