This wooden box is a wireless pinball controller and tablet stand. The idea is to set it on a workbench to give you some of the thrill of standing and playing the real thing. [Jeff] has been rather… ...

A n Arduino is a microcontroller — a single board designed to control something and perform a specific task. Unlike a Raspberry Pi, you won't find anything resembling an operating system here ...

Open Source RF, a small company that uses KickStarter to raise money for interesting projects, should have an Arduino-compatible Bluetooth v4.0 module— the RFduino— available by mid-summer 2013. The ...

Nordic Semiconductor has announced that wireless startup 'Open Source RF' has launched on KickStarter.com the world's first 'Arduino' compatible open-source micro-computer that can communicate ...

Here's an instance of NFC technology that's more exciting than yet another tap-to-pay scenario. Google employee Paul Carff combined a Motorola Xoom running ICS with an Arduino microcontroller to ...

Man, do nerds love their coffee. How else do you explain that a robot-controlled espresso machine blew through its Kickstarter target by a crazy 16X? Coffee-loving engineers Gleb Polyakov and Igor ...