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These guys mounted the entire Arduino board onto the IC chip itself for an extra-small package.

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Equip a Light Bike with this Light Lane system and you would be as safe as could be riding around at night!

Hope they start producing these soon…would be great fun to put in your own imagery as well…hmmm…ideas….

[via The Raw Feed]

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Just posted the initial write-up of the last project I coded in Processing, fWorks….trying to update my site with newer work…

Check it out: fWorks

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I meant to share this story when I first wrote up the original post on my student’s Arduino projects, but I forgot to put it in there. Something that flew past in the Twitterstream today reminded me of it, so I figured I’d share now…better late than never…

It seems that one of my students, a young female undergraduate, went to a local branch of Radio Shack to purchase a few components for her project. After browsing through the few (and rather under-stocked) drawers that they have at our local store, she went up to the counter to complete her purchase. There, she was waited on by a middle-aged white man who, as he rang up her items, looked up at her and posed this question: “Do you even know what these things do?”

I give that student credit for not ripping back into the guy. She simply looked him in the eye and said, “As a matter of fact, yes I do.” I wish she had added “Do you?” After dealing with some of the sales help at local Radio Shacks in various cities across the country in recent years, I can say that a positive answer would not have been assured.

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Bright Bike is a Retroreflective Vinyl coated bike. It is like coating your bike with a big sticker that turns ultra-brite in headlights.

Bright Bike is a pretty cool use of 3M’s retroreflective material…and of course it’s on a bike, so…

Check out the Instructable on how to make your own bike bright. Nice video there and here too.

Ride safe!
/david