This book is a simple, step-by-step guide to learning to program in machine code. Machine code is the code in which the computer does all its work and programs written in machine code runs much faster and take up less memory space than programs in BASIC. A machine code program, though, is much more difficult to write and less easy to understand than a program in BASIC.

I remember reading this as a kid, so I presume that it was translated into Swedish. Still, a colourful introduction to how the machine thinks. I’ll show it to my daughter this weekend.

Via BoingBoing.

Ino may replace Arduino IDE UI if you prefer to work with command line and an editor of your choice or if you want to integrate Arduino build process to 3-rd party IDE.

Ino is based on make to perform builds. However Makefiles are generated automatically and you’ll never see them if you don’t want to.

Sounds like the best of two worlds to me!

via SparkFun.

The camera boards are now available for order! You can buy one fromRS Components or from Premier Farnell/Element14. We’ve been very grateful for your patience as we’ve tweaked and refined things; it’d have been good to get the camera board out to you last month, but we wanted your experience to be as good as possible, and we’ve been working on the software right up until last night.

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For such a small device, this has been an enormous project, and a year-long effort for everybody involved. We’re pretty proud of it: we hope you like it!

For the curious minded, there is a small video demonstrating how to get it started.

Or, you can read up on Wikipedia.

I’m not sure if this ever will become mainstream. But imagine having sensors for vitals integrated in your t-shirt. Monitoring pulse, breathing, etc without any clumsy sensors. This, coupled with movement-based power generation, I’m sure we will see more and more in the future.

Ludde (from Gothenburg, just as myself) built a NES inside a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA as a project over Christmas. The system drives a VGA output and emulates the CPU, PPU and APU, i.e. processing, graphics and audio units. Conveniently enough, the controllers are hooked up via USB, so you do not have to dig out the originals.

Via hackaday.

The conclusion of this is that this site either targets the wrong audience, or that Flattr does not work. I kind of liked their idea, but for now, the link goes away.

Now you can do this using your Raspberry Pi and an old scanner instead. Eduardo Luís has come up with a solution with a single button for scan-and-email and a pair of LEDs for the status. Seems like a very convenient solution to me. All that is missing to replace the big scanner here would be a printer and a way to select where the scan would go (to who or to the printer). Still, it is 35$ and an old scanner – and it takes up less space than the office style scanner / copier / printer.

Via Hackaday.