Posts Tagged ‘the-process’
Automated beer brewing courtesy of Arduino
Brewing your own beer by hand is soooo 1992. You can now automate most of the process using an Arduino controller and some source code over at Halfluck.com. As for materials, you’ll need an Arduino board, an LCD and serial board, two temperature sensors, four push buttons, four solid state relays, one 2400-watt heater element, two perastaltic pumps, and one spit motor
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Automated beer brewing courtesy of Arduino
Sheet music for the Kindle: I’m so getting Memories from Cats
Novato Music Press is now selling over 20,000 pieces of sheet music for the Kindle, allowing budding Rachmaninoffs and Wiggles to download and play music right off of their DXen. The sheet music starts at $3.
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Sheet music for the Kindle: I’m so getting Memories from Cats
Online Furniture Outlet MyFab Raises An Extra €5 Million
Paris-based MyFab has just raised €5 million ($7 million) in a second round, which was led by previous investor Alven Capital and joined by BV Capital. The total amount invested in the company is now €7 million ($8.9 million). MyFab - which is currently available only in French and German - is an interesting e-commerce play in that its mission consists of cutting out all middlemen in the process of consumers buying furniture.
According to the company big furniture brands - particularly those wearing the ‘design’ hat - often outsource the whole manufacturing process of sofas, lamps, etc. to factories in foreign countries and charge ridiculous prices for the end-product compared to the total cost of production.