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It’s almost time to board the plane and I’m still messing with the slides for my talk at 1PM tomorrow in the East Ballroom at Notacon 6.

It’s a good thing this stuff is so much fun, otherwise I might ask myself – why am I doing this??

I’m hoping to meet some cool peeps at the non-con.  I’ll have Rescue Shield kits and stickers with me for anyone who wants to check them out. Even if you don’t see my talk, say hi sometime during the weekend.  I’ll be the nerdy looking tall guy in the black shirt.  Oh wait…

Marcus at Interactive Matter made this awesome space invaders button, inspired by Alex Weber’s 64pixels project.  It uses almost entirely SMT components and an ATmega164P microcontroller.

The PCB layout is gorgeous!

Marcus provides schematics, source code, and some helpful notes about surface mount soldering. I really like to see SMT projects like these popping up, proving that with the right tools, through hole packaging is no longer a necessity for DIY!

Space Invaders Button | Interactive Matter.

kuangeleven is working on a WL-520gU based Wi-Fi Radio based on my original project.  Unlike my version, he’s using an Arduino Mini instead of an ATmega to control the user interface.

Asus wl-520gu Wi-Fi Radio & LCD Display

Originally uploaded by kuangeleven

As I mentioned last week, Adafruit Industries is hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router to talk to the Tweet-a-Watt.

Their hack is based on the work I did to create my Wifi Radio project.

Check out the video below to learn more about their cool hack!

Head on over to the new MightyOhm.com Forums to discuss projects from the blog and chat with other members of our small (but awesome) community!

At the moment there are forums for:

• My Wifi Radio project
• The AVR HV Rescue Shield
• My Bluetooth Handset Hack
  
• The DIY PID Controlled Soldering Hotplate
• Making Video Signals with Microcontrollers
• My first project, the PID Controlled Solder Paste Fridge

A new forum for each major project on the site!