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May 23, 2012
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This is a nice one to share with Gadget Masters, from our sister site New Scientist - 
Here's a nice example of what you can do with the IOIO Android-friendly breakout board that we've 
It's time for another Gadget Master competition! The theme we are taking
for this one is the recent Mindstorms roundup, but the prize is not Lego-based! Time for a more conventional consumer electronics gadget, I feel...
David Mellis, a PhD student at MIT has published the circuit and case
designs and the source code for a working mobile phone that he built
using parts worth 
Before we launch the imminent May/June 2012 compo, let's have another themed roundup of posts... on 
A post about
spider silk might sound more like biology than electronics; and the strength of
spider webs is the stuff of legend, as Spiderman fans will tell you. But recent
May - and the season of Bank Holidays - is upon us! But before April 2012 becomes but a distant memory let's tarry just a while to consider the most popular posts on the blog in the foregoing month.
Time to announce the winner of the most recent Gadget Master 
Ikea has been working on a digital camera largely made from cardboard. 
When Robots take over the world, will they play Rock-Paper-Scissors to pass the time? Well, one of their precursors does (featured at Robogames 2011 for the Lego Open challenge, where it won first place).
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Stanford students are demonstrating the potential of NFC-based hackery with a number of projects "showing how
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