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The Pachube community and a growing group of contributors including Mark Shepard, JP de Vooght, Rob van Kranenburg and others have embarked on developing what they are calling Air Quality Eggs. Taking another step forward in the emerging world of citizen sensing the open-source...

Charalampos Doukas has released his new book that helps you build Internet of Things related projects utilizing the Arduino platform as a base.Description:In Building Internet of Things with the Arduino, you’ll learn the basic concepts and features of the Internet of Things and build...

Jeff Hoefs a NYC based interaction designer and new media artist has released a new protoptyping tool called Breakout, the project grew out of "a need for a simple platform to enable designers to prototype functional web-based interfaces to the physical world". It...

The Descriptive Camera created by Matt Richardson (@MattRichardson) as part of a Computational Camera class at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program takes an entirely new approach to photography and metadata by creating a device that turns your captured imagery into words via Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and a...

From O'reilly Media comes the latest in installments of IOT related books. This one is written by Cuno Pfister and is called Getting Started with the Internet of Things: Connecting Sensors and Microcontrollers to the Cloud. ...

Ninja Blocks are wireless devices that use a combination of sensors and a backend cloud service to enable you to create “if this then that” style tasks for your world. The creators are currently looking for development funds on Kickstarter (40 days to go...

The OpenEnergy Monitor project started in 2009 by Trystan Lea is an open-source monitoring system for energy efficiency and distributed renewable generation. The team's goal is to develop end-to-end open-source energy system tools for monitoring, control and analysis...

Connect the Embedded world to the Internet openPICUS is internet freedom for your things, control and communication for your electronic devices. ...

SourceMap is a mapping tool meant for business owners and consumers to understand the impact of supply chains and how the products they are using contribute to the environment. It was created "so that everyone can access the information needed to make...

From their site: TSPS is a cross-platform Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces. The Toolkit for Sensing People in Spaces (TSPS) works by extending the energy of a person,...

Trackmate is an open source initiative to create an inexpensive, do-it-yourself tangible tracking system, allowing any computer to recognize tagged objects (and their corresponding position, rotation, and color information) when placed on a surface. Trackmate sends all object data via LusidOSC, a protocol layer...

Foundry the research arm at Mint Digital has just released Molly, their follow up project to their smell producing robot Olly. Taking a little different of approach to bringing your social networking world into your physical world Molly...

Calling itself an "exercise in interface archaeology" the Tworse Key is a portable device created by Martin Kaltenbrunner that interprets your taps and outputs the final message via the Twitter API. It is connected to the internet...

Directed by Rodrigo Calvo, This film revisits the now infamous project Arduino and how it was launched in the Italian town of Ivrea back in 2005 at the Interactive Institute of Ivrea. Its only about a 1/2 hour in length and worth your time if...