Social bookmarking integration is all-the-web2.0-rage. But looking at the costs, can you really afford to run your own? Server upgrades, bandwidth allocation, spam management…What a headache! Here’s a simple way for you to add a social-networking system to anything you own, for a minimal investment: The Digg Button Kit!

The Digg button is a very simple beginner electronics that teaches how to solder and program microcontrollers. Once made, this basic electronic project mimics the popular Digg.com website: each time you push the button, the button flashes “Dug” and increments the counter up to 999 “diggs”. The project is completely open source and documented, including parts list, schematics and code. For those who don’t want to try to chase down the electronic components, we have a full kit ready to go in the Adafruit webshop.

We already have a couple simple projects to get people started: how to power it from USB or batteries, how to make it scroll a simple message, etc. We’ll be updating the mods as more people get their hands on the kits.

For every sale of the Digg button kit we’re giving $1 to the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The kit is currently in its first release; new colors and other projects will be available. We even have a plan for making it interface directly to digg.com! (Stay tuned…)

If the mass media are to be believed, there is nothing more useful to today’s heroes-in-training than bomb-defusing know-how.

Blue wire? Green wire? All wires? Once you figure all that stuff out you’ll want to carry around a pocket bomb defusing tool. Where to get such a thing? Well, you are in luck! We have them in stock right now at the Adafruit webshop

I’ve updated the shop with the latest revision of the Mintyboost kit. The newest kits have two possible locations for R5 so that the latest iPods and the Zune, etc. will work just fine without any hacks. New instructions are up, too.

I’m experimenting with nicer silkscreens, as you can see these kits now come with white mask and black silk. I also finally figured out how to import custom graphics into EagleCAD (the importbmp.ulp script) so I’ve put the adafruit logo on!

I’ve updated the Wave Bubble schems and board files to RC1a which fixes the 2 or 3 bugs notified to me. Check the d0x out from the download page

I’m back from a successful endeavor at SXSW interactive, and I’ve uploaded x0xb0x board layout files to Sourceforge. You can grab them from the x0xb0x download page To generate Gerbers, use EagleCAD

If you just want to buy the PCBs, they are available for sale in the webshop!

Information is power.

In this case, exactly 35 Watts of power!

Check out the new Laser Information pages for all of your $20K laser cutter setup needs!

Its another Wiki embedded page: it looks like a normal web page but if you click the link at the top it will take you to the Wiki where the data is kept. That way, the 99% of people who just want the info don’t have to deal with the strange look of a wiki.

The real problem with all these ‘podcasts’ is that people are all ‘talking’ all the time.

Who wants to listen to people talk when instead you could be listening to x0xb0x’s cranking out bassline beats?

So check out the x0xb0x ‘podcast’, either with your RSS reader at http://x0xb0x.libsyn.com/rss or with iTunes at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=216371100
Or just stop by http://x0xb0x.libsyn.com There’s already a bunch of demo tunes up there.

Got something to show? Submit your own by emailing me or posting it to the x0xb0x forums! (The mp3 will be hosted on libsyn so there’s no worries about dealing with traffic!)

above: controlvoltage’s x0xbeast

Site is coming back up. Things may appear strange for a few days, leave me a note or email if you notice something very broken

I fixed some icky problems (in wxMIDI!) and now the MIDIsense software is crosscompiling nicely between Mac and Windows, therefore there is now fast and updated software for both platforms. Rad! Download it now!

I’ve completely revamped the SpokePOV software for both Mac OS X and Windows. The interface is better, the image handling is nicer, the download/uploads are faster. There’s even a debugging wizard that will help you figure out why it might not be working.
If you’ve had any problems before, you should check this out! And let me know how it works for you - good and bad. (Just comment here or post on the forum)

Download it here!
http://www.ladyada.net/make/spokepov/download.html

The SpokePOV page also got a little reorganization, including a gallery! If you have pictures, send them to me & I’ll add ‘em.