Not happy with the current crop of fitness trackers or other wearable devices? You could try designing your own from scratch, but that’s a pretty massive undertaking. Chinese device maker Giayee has another idea: They’re launching a crowd-funding campaign for a DIY wearable device kit called Atomwear. If the team can raise at least $12,000 […]
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PiPhone: DIY Raspberry Pi-based smartphone
Tired of carrying around a smartphone that you didn’t build with your own hands? Soon your worries may be over. Hacker Dave Hunt has built a working smartphone out of a Raspberry Pi, a touchscreen, a GSM module, a battery, and a few other components. The end result is a DIY smartphone which you can […]
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Ouya returns to its roots: Hacked to become a handheld game system
The Ouya is an inexpensive game console with the guts of a cheap Android phone or tablet. But unlike most Android devices, the Ouya doesn’t have a display or touchscreen — it’s meant to be plugged into your TV and used with a wireless remote control. But one hacker decided to make the Ouya a […]
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Xiaomi introduces Mi WiFi router: Some assembly required
If you’re the sort of person who expects gadgets to just work when you take them out of the box, Xiaomi’s new WiFi router isn’t for you. On the other hand if you’re the sort of person who likes to build things, take them apart, and put them back together again so you can understand […]
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Microsoft unveiled its next-generation Surface tablets this week, including a new Surface 2 with an NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor, Windows RT software, and a $449 price tag. But Asus gave us a good reason not to care about Microsoft’s tablet: The upcoming Asus Transformer Book T100 has an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor, up to […]
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DukePad: DIY plans for building a Raspberry Pi tablet
The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive computer designed for education and DIY purposes. For about $35 you get a tiny device with a processor, memory, input and output, and a memory card slot. Just insert a flash card, keyboard, and display and you’ve got a full-fledged computer. Folks have also found ways to make the […]
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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a cheap robotics platform with BrickPi
The Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap device designed to make computers accessible to students, hobbyists and others. The BrickPi is a small, cheap device designed to build on that concept by letting you use a Raspberry Pi as the brains of a programmable robot. You can pick up a Raspberry Pi for just $35, […]
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Arduino Robot kit makes building, programming robots simple(r)
Folks have been using the popular Arduino DIY computing platform to build robots and all sorts of other simple computing devices for a while. Arduino boards are inexpensive and relatively easy to use devices with support for a range of sensors and motors. Now there’s an official Arduino Robot kit which makes it even easier […]
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Building a cheap Android laptop with an Android TV stick + Motorola Lapdock
Motorola may not be making the Lapdock anymore, but for a little over a year, the company offered Lapdock accessories for a handful of smartphones, letting you use your phone like a laptop. The Lapdock looks like a laptop, but it has no processor, memory or storage. Just connect your supported Atrix, Bionic, or other […]
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Raspberry Pi + USB mic = baby monitor
Baby monitors give parents piece of mind by letting them keep an ear (or eye) on a kid’s room while wondering the house. But you don’t need to spend a lot of money on a high-end model to get decent performance. Matt Karr decided to build one himself using little more than a $35 Raspberry […]
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LapPi project transforms a Raspberry Pi into a laptop (in a briefcase)
The Raspberry Pi is a mini PC with a $35 price tag, a 700 MHz ARM11 processor, up to 512MB of RAM, and Ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports. It’s about the size of a pack of cards, and we’ve seen people cram the entire PC into a keyboard, a camera grip, and other tight spaces. […]
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Some Google Nexus 7 screens separate from tablet
The Google Nexus 7 tablet is a pretty well built device for a $199 tablet. But it looks like not all models were built equally — many users are reporting that the isn’t firmly attached to the base of the tablet, and pressing down on one part of the screen could cause another part to […]