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Scientific instrumentation and computing hardware

Latest news in scientific computing and development of low-cost hardware for laboratory instrumentation. The pages in this section contain links to web sites with DIY instructions for building hardware and open-source or low-cost software.

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Hardware news:

Autodesk Inventor Fusion for Mac Coming
A multispectral optical illumination system with precise spatiotemporal control for the manipulation of optogenetic reagents
The Little Printer goes where no computer dares to
Bug Checker Portable Light Board
The World's First "Nano-Ear" Can Listen to the Songs of Bacteria
New in the Maker Shed: Arduino Wireless Proto Shield
Tiny Bipolar Stepper Motor Control
Sensing 3D surfaces with Gelsight
DIY Arduino Intervalometer
DIY Digital Salinometer
Smell-o-Vision – SMELLIT
Behind the Scenes of Arduino Manufacturing
DIY Capacitive Touch Made Easy
AMD Radeon HD 7970 review roundup: supremely fast, relatively efficient
Matt Richardson turns Arduino, Twitter and lasers into art (video)
Grad students forge digital light projector into medical imaging device, can't find dates
Fusion-io breaks one billion IOPS barrier, pauses to congratulate itself
Roll up, roll up for the magical mystery Arduino tour
Way-Go flashlight uses lasers to light your path, GPS to tell you where to go
Google, MIT open-source Android App Inventor
Raspberry Pi $25 PC on course for January arrival
Paging Raven II, the open-source surgery robot
New biochip measures glucose levels in saliva
Lantronix xPrintServer makes every network printer AirPrint-ready
Raspberry Pi's $35, 700MHz Linux computer enters manufacturing
Searching the Sea for Scum-Busting Cholera Killers
QuNeo 3D Multi-Touch Controller
US$25 Raspberry Pi personal computer nears launch date
Wormhole Station connects Windows to Mac to Android to iOS
New "smart" polymer opens door for medical use of low-power near-infrared light
No assembly required for Cubify 3D printer
Ortery Technologies shows 3D Pure White Background photography system
Particle-free silver ink developed for printable electronics
Tamaggo 360-Imager captures all round action with a single click
Power Bank two-in-one flashlight and phone charger
Gakken 8bit Micro Computer Japanino Model - USD 78
High-Speed Water Drop Photography by Heinz Maier
ePawn Arena set to be a game-changer
Akai intros MPC Fly pad controller for iPad 2
Raspberry Pi tweaked to run Apple AirPlay
New Xeon CPU Reported to Be Amazingly Fast
Top Ten Innovations 2011
Android Wireless EOS camera controller
Focus stacking assistant var.Mini – build log
Focus stacking assistant for EOS cameras
DIY instruments
GPU accelerated biochemical network simulation.
Buying Guide: Best cheap DX11 graphics card: 10 tested
CompuLab introduces its smallest, most energy efficient mini-PC to date
Disposable microfluidic devices created using regular wax paper
MSI AMD Fusion Brazos Mini-ITX E350IA-E45 is now available in Japan
The 4313 has landed.
Convert an Old Laptop into a Mini MAME Arcade
DreamPlug offers compact, low power, performance computing
DIY Electronic Watering System
Nikon's 36x COOLPIX superzoom breaks cover
Arrays of Tiny Cameras Can Shoot Pics, Then Re-Focus Them After the Fact
Okii's USB Follow Focus for Canon EOS filmmakers
Whole Lotta Arduino Going On
Talking Plant Project
Glass block LED display at Hive 13
Make: Online : Modular stackable Arduino enclosure
Making classic frequency counters into Nixie clocks
Xi3 modular computer to make global debut at CES 2011
The 4x4x4 LED Cube Using an Arduino
Researchers develop genuine 3D camera
Rob's laser microscope build
New in the Maker Shed: Netduino Plus
Mini-Vise
Make It Last Build Series: The robot plants are in bloom!
Bench Cookies
Nebulophone – A Miniature Arduino Powered Synth
Matrox updates dual- and triple-head video breakout boxes
Apple releases XCode 4 Preview 5 to developers
Awesome Vintage Tech Ads | UNEASYsilence
Original Apple Computer Up For Sale
Original Apple Computer Up For Sale
Hackintosh In A Cardboard Box
How-To: Sensor Tutorial -- IR remote receiver-decoder tutorial
This Lung-On-A-Chip
Test of the Mac Pro 12 Cores
Low cost spectroscope
MSI introduces low noise, low heat N480GTX Twin Frozr II graphics card
Seagate 12TB NAS
Jumbo Nintendo DS Screen project
Hitachi unveils hi-res 302ppi 6.6-inch IPS tablet display
MicroNet unveils storage system with 10TB capacity, RAID 5
RAIDON launches new one to four bay, USB 3.0, disk array storage devices
Nikon Fabre Photo EX Camera Microscope
Fast live simultaneous multiwavelength four-dimensional optical microscopy.
SolexaQA: At-a-glance quality assessment of Illumina second-generation sequencing data.
Stealth Computer unveils its smallest Mini PC to date
World's Smallest, Audible Musical Instrument Plays Mario Theme
Fujitsu starts shipping 10 petaflop supercomputer
Unity 3.0 - High-end game development app. (Free)
NVIDIA Fermi-Class Quadro GPUs
Homemade laser microscope reveals water's murky secrets
Immersion's new haptic effects solution heads for Toshiba's Libretto w100
So small you'll forget it's there: the MosKeyto flash drive from LaCie
Automate Infrared Devices via the Web

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