I’m so very sleepy today but I should post about this before a nap…After many many many revisons, my GPS data-logging shield is done! Ive spent the last few weeks taking lots of data, so I think its pretty solid. The design supports 4 different (popular) modules, and writes data to an SD card as a plain text file. For geo-sensor tracking, I wrote a sketch that will log 3 analog sensor values along with the location, date and time. Many people have asked me over the years about DIY GPS loggers so hopefully they will be happy now.

There’s even some ideas for power management, and waterproof enclosures

You can pick one up at the Adafruit webshop right now, along with a rather nice GPS receiver module.

Phew…I think I’m going to take a break from designing new Arduino shields for a bit: I’m pretty happy with the 5 I’ve got and there are many other neat projects clamoring for attention.

Dazbo10 just finished building his self-sourced x0xb0x in a mintyfresh color scheme and has a little demo vid with tweakage that covers pretty much the entire output range. Read more about it here

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One step above scavenging from sidewalk trash, the stonetek laser shop has multitudes of laser diodes, drivers, gratings, etc.

Dine909 etched 5 PCBs driving RGB LEDs and glued them together. Fill with clear glass marbles, play some 90’s ambient g0th music and you’ve got an instant cyber-moodlight!

Ayah Bdeir (who survived the same research group as I) is making cute little snap-together electronic kits

I spy batteries, pots, LEDs, touch sensors…

Edit: This project is sponsored by Smart Design and in collaboration with Jeff Hoefs

Chris Radek’s site is full of CNC hacking, g-code and dxf conversion, PCB mills and a ridonkulously large nixie tube

Ben Jandrell has a humongous collection of wind & solar projects, including lots of interesting hacks such as how to repurpose Sturmey-Archer dynohubs , using bike computers to calculate efficiency and dirt-cheap propeller design.

Kids home from school and clamoring for something to do? there are 203984203942 projects that have to do with magnets at the CoolMagnetMan site

Including a $6 gauss meter. You could probably build this with stuff kickin’ around the house.

Carl Pisaturo’s portfolio website is full of beautiful images and kinetic art including some surprisingly in-depth build logs. I particularly liked the Orbit Machine

Olaf Ladousse is a Madrid artist who makes strange noisemakers in beautiful boxes

Check out the photoset here