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Hardware prims

Some various links to sites highlighting some of the thinking and experimenting being done around ‘adaptable’ hardware. Some of it ‘open-source-hardware’.

Anything used as a basis to build something else I like to refer to as a “prim” – borrowing from the secondlife concept of “primitives” – small basic building blocks used to build all objects in SL.

BugLabs – BUG makes it fun and easy to build any gadget you can imagine. Build familiar things like digital cameras and GPS locators or create new devices like a LoCamMotion or a GeoPhotoShooter.

http://www.buglabs.net/

Arduino – Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software.

http://www.arduino.cc/

SunSpots – Experimental Technology from Sun Microsystems Labs.

http://www.sunspotworld.com/

Phidgets -Phidgets are a set of “plug and play” building blocks for low cost USB sensing and control from your PC.

http://www.phidgets.com/

Technorati Tags: adaptive, prims, secondlife

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