Any Color You Like [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: a new take on stage lighting, a remote controlled smoke grenade, homebrew sofubi, and I want my cat TV.
Jumping the Jungle [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: look ma, no jumpers, an E-Book with no strings attached, the return of the keytar, and a pinball machine with no brain.
Tread Gently [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: bringing your own baby Wall-E to life, Hackaday’s Op Amp challenge, a new twist on the video synthesizer, and adding animations to backlit panels.
Favorite Projects of 2022 [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, Donald and Tyler look back at their favorite maker projects and tips of 2022.
Ornament of Doom [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update: vintage gaming for your tree, a snowflake made from LED noodles, making for fun, and the Alpakka open source gamepad.
Virtual High Five [Maker Update]
This week on Maker Update, roll your own virtual reality gloves, an LED snowboard, a ferrofluid Bluetooth speaker, an animatronic webcam, spinning lights and blinking pixels.
Drum Break! [Maker Update #195 *Adafruit Edition*]
This month on Maker Update, a 3d printed drummer, Adafruit at the newsstand, going live, a voting calendar, an eyeball shootout and a panic button for all your Zoom calls.
Scrub-a-Dub [Maker Update #168]
This week on Maker Update, 20 seconds of Spotify from your soap pump, MIT’s $100 open source ventilator, safe tools for kids, and the Hackaday calendar of virtual events.
Stroboscopic Zoetrope [Maker Update #87]
This week on Maker Update, a 100 foot slip and slide, two kinds of zoetrope, an open source test tube rocker, car lock pinball, a new issue of Make, diffusing LEDs, and a chance to win one of my favorite maker books.
PocketCHIP $69 Handheld Computer Review
The Oakland-based startup Next Thing Co. made a splash in 2015 when they announced a $9 single-board Linux computer called C.H.I.P. Like the Raspberry Pi, C.H.I.P. is a Linux computer designed for DIY projects and education — only significantly less expensive. And while the price made an impression on me at the time, I wasn’t yet into Raspberry Pi enough to even be tempted by a competitor. That is, until I saw PocketCHIP.
Next Thing Co. is clever enough to sell an accessory called PocketCHIP that transforms the credit card-sized board into a thoroughly unique, fully functional handheld computer. The PocketCHIP’s $69 price includes both the CHIP board and the portable handheld computer hardware that it simply slots right into.