Not exactly relevant to BEAM, but an interesting distraction: Here's some interesting media from the San Francisco Exploratorium. Notable media to watch is their "Iron Science Teacher" competition (familiar with "The Iron Chef? Same idea...), and their hosting of Robot Sumo Wrestling.
More Grove Parts from SeeedStudio
Solar botics
February 12, 2015
SeeedStudio Grove modules, including a flame sensor, skin conductivity and touch sensors, IR send/receive units, and an ultrasonic sensor. We continue to add to the Grove items category!
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Grove - Flame Sensor $8.28 An adjustable-sensitivity flame sensor, with Grove interface compatibility. |
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Grove - GSR Interface $11.88 Galvanic skin response measures the electrical conductance of skin. This Grove module makes it easy to measure the response across 2 fingers on a hand. |
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Grove - Infrared Receiver $5.04 Any project that requires talking to a standard 38kHz IR remote control will work well with this receiver. |
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Grove - Infrared Emitter $5.04 Convenient plug-in-and-use Infrared emitter module for the Grove system. |
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Grove - Ultrasonic Ranger $19.32 Ultrasonic distance sensor, featuring the plug-in-and-use Grove system. |
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Grove - Touch Sensor $5.04 It's a ready-to-use touch sensor switch compatible with the Grove system. Plug it in, tuck it in behind a non-metallic surface, and you are finished. |
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BEAM as part of thesis work
Rory Nugent (of Solar Xylophone fame) has posted his thesis presentation to the Interactive Telecommunications Program, which heavily features BEAM devices. By "building things with a sense of life", he's documenting what we've known for a good while - autonomous devices ("pets") offer unusual interesting relationships. Keep up the good work!
Everybody have a good 2010? Good...
Let's start 2011 by promoting a worthwhile event sponsored by one of our suppliers, SparkFun. Tomorrow is their 2nd "Free Day". Last year's event pretty much crashed their servers (we sent flowers of condolence). This year, they're going about it a bit wiser, offering several ways to taking advantage of their $150,000 give-away. We're big […]
New Instructables!
Our clear breadboard was recently blogged on Makezine, which reminded me we juuuust about had an instructable ready for that same item. So, a few hours later, it is finished and posted. And while I was at it, I finished editing another Instructable by Jerome Demers, our intern. He did up a DIY Miniball instructable […]
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