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Gizmodo.com
Now, now, don’t get too excited. Creator Joe Grand designed it to be hacked. Still, 10 minutes is a pretty respectable time for the soldering, reprogramming and reflashing job done by Dave Bullock
[ continue ]Wired.com
Designer Joe Grand did another great job of designing the DefCon badge this year. It’s a user-programmable badge with an LED marquee that can display scrolling, customizable text and also has a persistence of vision mode. And, of course, it was made to be hacked.
[ continue ]Hackaday
I made it over to pre-registration earlier and scored my badge. It’s a pretty interesting piece of work by [kingpin]. It’s got 95 SMD leds forming a matrix display. The top and bottom icons on the badge are touch sensitive buttons. It’s got selectable modes, programmable text scrolling, a pre-set POV mode and adjustable scrolling speed.
[ continue ]Servo Magazine
Localization — determining the position of a robot relative to landmarks or to absolute global geometry — is a fundamental challenge in mobile robotics. Wall-followers use ultrasonic and IR sensors to track their position relative to a wall or other barrier. GPS-equipped outdoor robots determine their absolute position by triangulating satellite signals.
[ continue ]Microsoft Channel 10
Maker Faire 2007 featured Joe Grand who is a retro gaming guy. He’s a home brew game developer and he was too cheap to buy a DVD player. Yep. You know exactly where this one is going.
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