China is usually perceived as difficult by Europeans: communication is impossible, constant daily hassle, unyielding culture and far too many people. We are here to experience the truth of it. If there is any prejudice in particular you would like us to check out – let us know. Communication on Read more
blog written by Roman Buehler Yesterday I temporarily separated from my beloved TINRS-friends and went to Zhuhai, where I met my other lovely friend John Wang. I and my brother met him for the first time in our China Trip 2011, when we crisscrossed China on a different kind of Read more
A brief compilation of us on the Shenzhen Maker Faire – there are more videos with interviews and explanations to come but currently we are still very busy running around in China
One of the things we saw on the Faire was Palette – a system of connectable blocks. Each block contains an interaction element – a knob, a slider, a button, a LED or a tiny screen. You can connect the blocks together using side connectors to build a customized control surface Read more
At the Shenzhen Maker Faire we spotted Bunnie and had ourselves a little chat. We explained the concept behind TINRS and he fully agreed with showing the world that stuff can be done. When he asked if we had a sticker we offered a choice selection of our cut outs Read more
We were already spotted on the platform of the metrostation “Are you coming for Maker Faire?” – “yes” – “Follow me, I show you”. It must be our geek-sjiek attitude.. Just out of the station there were many of the Maker-red-robots, drones in the air and a rather large Bumblebee Read more
Krzysztof Foltman has posted his FPGA efforts so far on GitHub! Currently the codebase contains modules to deal with: – key-matrix input – LED output with brightness control – Serial port input and output – SPI flash – Quad-SPI flash (4 times as fast as regular SPI) No doubt this will Read more
HDMI video out should be well within reach of a Spartan 6 FPGA. I am still in the process of readin up and figuring out. Here are some of the more interesting reads I’ve found. Some are interesting in-depth, technical details, some are stories of people that did this before. Read more
The Goldfish platform is slowly growing in scope and complexity. The first three Goldfish designs focussed on getting components to work at all – microcontroller, audio codec, TFT screen and MIDI. The designs I’m working on right now will provide the processing power to do something more interesting than polyphonic ringtones. Read more