These are my links for August 4th:

• New WordPress Plugin for Google Reader Shared Items – This plugin enables you to automatically post your Google Reader shared items to your blog on a schedule you set (daily, weekly, monthly).
• Amazon.com: Logitech Wireless Performance Mouse MX for PC and Mac: Electronics – Your hand is poised. You're set to create the big presentation. And with your Logitech Performance Mouse MX, nothing stands in your way. This is the mouse that puts high performance in the palm of your hand.
• Wiblocks — Physical Computing Tools – The PICO1TR is a physical computing board that is compatible with the Arduino software environment. The board size is 2.1" x 1". All I/O pins from the ATmega168 (or ATmega328) are brought out on 2 rows of 14 pins (300mil spacing).
• Scratch Forums / Remote Sensor Connections in v1.3 –
• Scratch 1.4 Download | Scratch Documentation Site –
• Peel | Beem –

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These are my links for August 2nd:

• AVRopendous2DIP – avropendous – Open Hardware Development Board for the ATmega32U4 – Project Hosting on Google Code – Open Hardware Development Board for the ATmega32U4<br />
  AVRopendous2-DIP is an Open Hardware Development Board for Atmel's ATmega32U4 USB AVR Microcontroller.
• N6 Robot v1.1 – A robot board using the ATmega32U4 that claims compatibility with the Arduino IDE.
• Amazon.com: Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel (9780810989504): Paul Guinan, Anina Bennett: Books –
• Amazon.com: Act II: The Father Of Death: The Protomen: MP3 Downloads – A MegaMan inspired rock opera.
• lockwasher: robot sculptures – american artist lockwasher creates robot sculptures using found objects. while his initial <br />
  interest started with building ray guns, he soon began making these robotic characters <br />
  after accumulating an overwhelming amount of 'garbage' in his garage.

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These are my links for July 30th:

• sergey_larenkov – Cool series of old wartime photos superimposed onto modern photos of the same location.
• Amazon.com: Lunch Boxes Robot – New!: Kitchen & Dining – A cool robot lunch box
• Item No: ET-001 [1.97 Wheel dia., 1 1/2 Wheel width, 25 lbs. Cap./ wheel, Roll Flex Multidirectional Roller Only] – Roll Flex™ Multidirectional Roller Rails<br />
  Suitable for all applications when material or packages need to be transferred, sorted or turned in any direction. Roller design is based on the use of four free-turning barrel shaped rollers mounted in a 90° staggered pattern around the perimeter of a main core wheel, thus allowing for a multi-directional roller function.
• ThinkGeek :: Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog – Toasters, Wookiees, and 102 photos from SDCC – ThinkGeek's awesome coverage of SDCC.
• 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5 – today and tomorrow – 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5. Euh what? A few years ago, video cards could only render 256 colors at a time. So it was very hard to do nice animations. That’s why they invented color cycling. Certain pixel areas cylce through a palette of colors to suggest animation. A very simple idea with a really nice aesthetical outcome.

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These are my links for July 25th:

• PCB Cost Comparison Calculator – This is a quick calculator for the most popular PCB manufacturers for prototype PCBs.
• APCircuits –
• Scott Kelby’s Third Annual | Worldwide Photo Walk – a social photography event where photographers get together (usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town) to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers.
• BumbleB Version 2 Coming Soon | fletchtronics.net – Bumble-B version 2.0 is coming soon to fletchtronics.net. There have been several improvements.<br />
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  Updated microcontroller: ATMega32U2<br />
  3 pin power header replaced by a switch<br />
  Improved silkscreen<br />
  USB D+, D- lines now accessible
• Japan Trend Shop | ChouChou Butterfly – Keeping a butterfly in a jar is a childhood memory we all share. Unfortunately real butterflies only last a day and we cannot preserve the sensation of watching their beauty time after time. Until now. The ChouChou is an amazingly realistic butterfly toy that will, yes, fly and move inside a jar when you tap on the lid. Simply but mesmerizing, this award-winning creature dazzled visitors to the Tokyo Toy Show 2010 and is likely to become a bestseller on its release in September.
• World’s strongest beer – guaranteed to dent your wallet if not your liver | News.com.au – The blond Belgian ale, named The End of History, is an astonishing 55 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV) and is presented in a case made from stuffed animals, including stoats and squirrels.

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These are my links for July 21st:

• The GearBox Blog – After seven months of working on some really cool stuff we are excited to finally share it with the community! So what is GearBox? At GearBox we are creating flexible hardware platforms that are controlled from your phone. We are then open sourcing the APIs for these devices so that other software developers can bring their own apps into real life!
• How to Find Free License Stunning Images for your Blog – Not all bloggers use images with their blog posts, or even in their website! So, it might be possible to build a huge readership without a single photo on your site.
• Printed Circuit Boards – Buy Custom PCB Prototypes and Production Circuit Boards Online with our Instant PCB Quote | PCB Universee – Welcome to PCB Universe, your best source for high quality low cost Printed Circuit Boards. We have a wide range of capabilities and lead times plus a convenient online quote system you can use any time day or night. If you prefer to send us your files for quote or if you have manufacturing questions please give us toll free at 888-775-PCBU (7228) or send us an e-mail; we will be glad to help!
• ExpressPCB – Free PCB layout software – Low cost circuit boards – Top quality PCB manufacturing – MiniBoard<br />
  > 2 or 4 layer boards<br />
  > Board size must be 3.8 x 2.5 inches<br />
  > $51 for three 2-layer boards, $98 for three 4-layer boards
• Sunstone QuickTurn PCBs | Sunstone.com – Sunstone's PCBexpress® quickturn service is the perfect way to save time and money, especially in the prototyping stage. Your prototype boards can be completed in small runs and delivered in a hurry.

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These are my links for July 15th:

• Behind the Work: Old Spice Responses – Ann-Christine Diaz – Behind The Work – Creativity Online – For the past two days, Old Spice's The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, aka Isaiah Mustafa, has become the king of the social media space, charming the general public, bloggers and journalists with his gravelly baritone, spectacular abs and convoluted wordplay, delivering tailor-made video responses to TMYMCSL's online fanbase.
• SparkFun Electronics – Miniature Solar Cell – CPC1822 – The CPC1822 is a monolithic photovoltaic string of solar cells with switching circuitry. When operating in sunlight or a bright artificial light environment the optical energy will activate the cell array and generate a voltage at the output.
• Make Money Writing Online | Gather – I wonder how good this site is.
• ROILA – Robot Interaction Language – Do you speak robot?
• nootropic design | code | Toolduino – Toolduino is a simple software tool that lets you easily interact with your Arduino hardware so you can test the circuits you create. Toolduino is written in the Processing languange and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Toolduino uses the the Arduino library for Processing to communicate with an Arduino board so you can manipulate output pins and read inputs. The Arduino must be running the Firmata firmware that comes with the Arduino IDE. Toolduino is not for use with your own Arduino sketch — you must upload the StandardFirmata sketch to your Arduino before starting Toolduino.

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