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May 09, 2012 | Category: blinkm
WireM is a connector kit for the BlinkM family of Smart LED products that makes creating multi-BlinkM installations fast and easy. It contains all parts needed to make BlinkM strands controlled by LinkM or Arduino with up to 10 BlinkM devices. WireM works with any combination of BlinkMs, MaxMs, MinMs, FreeMs and CtrlMs, making prototyping fast and easy. No soldering is required. Put connectors wherever you want on the ribbon cable, plug into your BlinkMs, plug in a controller–or just a 5v power supply if you want an easy way to make a power bus–and go! Buy multiple kits if you want more than 10 BlinkMs on a single bus. WireM includes: 10 feet of ribbon cable 10 2×4 pin [...]
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May 02, 2012 | Category: blinkm
MIKE PRESENTING AT “PRODUCTS ARE HARD” CONFERENCE ThingMs Co-Founder Mike Kuniavsky – will be presnting at the upcoming “Products are Hard” Conference! Taking place in San Franicisco on May 1st, Mike’s presentation is entittled “Lean Hardware at Startups in Bigcos”. Learn more at: http://productsarehard.com/ THINGM BLOG We have exciting new projects up on the ThingM blog! Featured this month is a ThingM Technology Sketch called LockM. LockM is a portable and secure personal thumb drive, adding a sense of protection and high design to an everyday experience. Please visit our blog to learn more. Alex George’s Mini Main Street Electrical Parade features ThingM’s very own BlinkM – as well as LinkM at SALC! http://blog.thingm.com/ MAKER FAIRE ThingM will once again [...]
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April 25, 2012 | Category: linkm
Wow, one of our products is in use at a particle accelerator! Check out the LinkM on that board! JimP at SLAC writes us to say: The attached picture shows the board programmer we’ve developed using the LinkM as an interface to test and debug the mezzanine cards we’re building for the Cluster-on-Board (COB) project. The small card on the left is a Virtex4 system-on-chip device which is used as a 10 Gbit data processing module. This DPM has an I2C chain which stores small amounts of persistent data like bootstrap and TCP/IP info. The blue connector on the upper right goes to another type of board (an ATCA Rear Transmission Module) with similar requirements. We’ve also added a JTAG [...]
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April 20, 2012 | Category: blinkm
In case you were wondering, BlinkM and BlinkM MinM work with a 3.7 VDC lithium polymer battery. (via Tech Art Blog)
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April 18, 2012 | Category: blinkm
WHAT’S A TECHNOLOGY SKETCH? As part of our product development process, ThingM creates Technology Sketches, which are examples of early stage conceptual approaches to how a product might work, rather than actual fully-functional systems. We believe in lightweight, agile, user-centered product development, which means that we focus on users’ experiences first and technological details later. LockM is a portable and secure personal thumb drive, adding a sense of protection and high design to an everyday experience. Inspired by the familiar interface of the combination lock, LockM uses a customizable combination to access your data on-the-go. The discreet opening at the bottom keeps your combination safe from peepers and, when you’re not using your thumb drive, a quick swipe of the [...]
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April 06, 2012 | Category: blinkm
Mechanizing a Miniature Main Street Electrical Parade Two years in the making, it’s a mechanized miniature Main Street Electrical Parade. Utilizing miniatures from the Olszewski Disneyland Collection, the Electrical Parade has been motorized to travel down Main Street U.S.A. and put to a nighttime show of music. The floats are illuminated with BlinkMs that are attached to a hidden chain system under the street and are powered by contact rails along the parade route. It’s no exaggeration to say that BlinkMs came to the rescue for this project. Creator Alex George needed a practical way to illuminate the floats in a way that could control changes in color and even add some twinkling effects similar to the actual parade. Each [...]
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March 28, 2012 | Category: blinkm
TOD’S SILVER SCREEN DEBUT Unchained Reaction, Discovery Channels new show judged by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of MythBusters — is a new six-part series that pits two teams of varying backgrounds against each other to build an elaborate chain-reaction contraption. Who is on the very first season premier you ask? Why it is our very own ThingM Co-Founder Tod Kurt! The episode is titled ” Heavy vs. Light” and Adam and Jamie challenge a team of electronics experts and a team of set carpenters to build the most creative multi-step “heavy-vs-light” themed machine. Please visit the sight and watch! http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/unchained-reaction/about-episode-5.html NEW DISTRIBUTOR ThingM has also welcomed a new distributor to the fold. Light With LED! Please visit them: http://lightwithled.com/ [...]
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