What started out as a diffuse idea, got announced to a room of several hundred people before it was little more than that later that day, and fully implemented that night, has become an interesting resource for those interested in getting their hands dirty with electronics. Opencircuits.com is project that I started with the help [...]
I’ve been following nanotechnology for a long time and for as long as I can remember, nanotubes have been held as the first great delivery on nanotech’s big promises. But I’ve never been particularly impressed, because everytime I hear about nanotubes I have to remind myself that it will be years before I’ll get to [...]
If you are anything like me, when I first read the headline about the Tactiva touchpad I didn’t really take notice. After all, the capacitive touch sensing principle that most touchpads use hasn’t seen any major advances for a long time. But the Tactiva doesn’t seem to use capacitive touch, but a camera instead.
What this [...]