Monthly Archives: May 2013

Infragram: A cheap infrared camera for monitoring plant health

edhagopian shared this story from National Young Farmers' Coalition. The folks over at Public Laboratory initially developed the Infragram camera, a near-infrared camera that assesses photosynthetic activity in plants, to empower citizen science monitoring of wetlands health in the Gulf … Continue reading

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Farm Geeks: Learning to Love the Circuit Board

edhagopian shared this story from adafruit industries blog. Farm Geeks: Learning to Love the Circuit Board Steve Spence, an amateur organic farmer in Andrew, South Carolina, has a smart way of irrigating his vegetables. He uses water from his pond … Continue reading

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DIY farm hacking takes off

edhagopian shared this story from Arduino Blog.   Steve Spence, an amateur organic farmer in Andrew, South Carolina, has a smart way of irrigating his vegetables. He uses water from his pond and the fish waste to fertilize his plants, … Continue reading

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Fully printable PCB vise

edhagopian shared this story from Recent Instructables. Print. Assemble. Build Something. Or take something apart. By: jacobreed14 Continue Reading » via edhagopian’s blurblog http://www.instructables.com/id/Fully-printable-PCB-vise/

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Raspberry Pi helps with 2.4GHz home automation

edhagopian shared this story from Hack a Day. Wanting to extend the capabilities of the radio frequency devices in his home [Kalle Löfgren] turned a Raspberry Pi into an RF control hub. We’ve seen some of his home automation work in the past. … Continue reading

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Reflow soldering improved with carbon dioxide

edhagopian shared this story from Hack a Day. This is exactly what it looks like. [Oleg] calls it soldering in inert atmosphere, but it’s just a toaster oven reflow hack dropped into a container full of carbon dioxide. Why go to this … Continue reading

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Is the Windows user ready for apt-get?

edhagopian shared this story from Scott Hanselman's Blog: Daddy likes. What it does Chocolatey lets you install Windows applications quickly from the command line via a central catalog of installation scripts. You could install Git, 7Zip or even Microsoft Office … Continue reading

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Quickly zipping together your Windows 8 App with ZipApp

edhagopian shared this story from Coding 4 Fun: #yammer Continuing with our "Building Windows 8 App’s quickly" theme started last Wednesday, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, some PCL and your social world = Social Media Dashboard Sample, today’s Modern Monday … Continue reading

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Quentin Harley released SCARA based “RepRap Morgan” 3D printer and its design #3dthursday

edhagopian shared this story from adafruit industries blog. Quentin Harley released SCARA based “RepRap Morgan” 3D printer and its design, via 3ders: Reprap Morgan is a concentric dual arm SCARA FDM 3D printer, designed and built by Quentin Harley. The … Continue reading

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FabFont, a Typeface for Lasercut Stencils

edhagopian shared this story from adafruit industries blog. FabFont, a Typeface for Lasercut Stencils How many times have you seen stenciled text where the O’s are just empty circles because someone forgot to add the bridges? Yoshiyuki Habashima from FabLab Japan solved … Continue reading

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