October 15, 2009
links for 2009-10-15
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Fantastic set of projects to encourage good behaviour by making doing the right thing more fun. Sounds all very worthy and dry but just go and watch the video of the World's Deepest Bin.
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Step-by-step instructions for dismantling CD drives and which parts can be reused. Handy accompaniment to the vibrobots project as you can find most of the bits to build a vibrobot in a CD drive
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Step-by-step instructions for building vibrobots (aka brushbots).
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Finally an affordable WiFi shield for the Arduino. Haven't bought one yet, but I'm sure I'll get one eventually
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Good to see the official Arduino board manufacturers are thinking about the environmental impact of the boards. Also good to see that they're not claiming that offsetting is a full solution, but it's heading in the right direction.
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