This C.H.I.P.-powered Art Project Can Read Your Mind

Inhibition, a C.H.I.P.-powered electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, is the latest work of Marinos Koutsomichalis, a creative technologist and scholar interested in the interplay between humans and machines.

Commissioned by Onassis Cultural Centre and Ars Electronica for the Hybrids group exhibition, the piece is on display in the Athens, Greece through the end of January 2017.

EEG is traditionally known as a medical test for the human brain that’s been around since the 1920s. Electrodes are placed on the head to monitor and record voltage fluctuations between neurons in the brain. Doctors use this data to help diagnose abnormalities in brain functioning that could suggest preconditions for epileptic seizures or indicate the patient has sustained a head trauma. It’s a medical technology that reveals fundamental brain health, but recently there is a crop of new applications for EEG, such as Inhibition .

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Turn Your Pringles Can into an Amazon Echo with C.H.I.P.!

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A while back, Sam Machin built a $10 Amazon Echo using C.H.I.P.! To celebrate the occasion, we all sat around and ate some Pringles chips. Then it hit us! Sam’s project needed an enclosure, and that now empty Pringles can was perfect.

Wasting no time at all, we bundled up all the electronics, Dave got creative with building a nifty cardboard support structure, and we shoved everything inside. The result, Pringles Alexa! Here’s how to build one.

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PICO-8! Now Free for All C.H.I.P.s

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C.H.I.P.sters, PICO-8 is now available for C.H.I.P. and it’s completely free!

Plus, check out our new $29 PICO-8 Console Kit. It comes with a C.H.I.P., HDMI DIP, C.H.I.P. power adapter, game controller, and of course PICO-8! It’s the perfect little package for the aspiring game developer on your holiday shopping list.

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Whether you build a game from scratch or modify one of the 1000s of existing open source games, PICO-8 on C.H.I.P. is an easy and fun way to learn game development. Thanks to our super-friends at lexaloffle who created PICO-8, we are thrilled that every PocketC.H.I.P. and now every C.H.I.P. has access to PICO-8 for free! Here’s a step-by-step guide to get your game on with PICO-8 on C.H.I.P.!

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Give Your Old Electronics New Life with These 3 C.H.I.P. Projects

The electronic guts of a wireless speaker project that use C.H.I.P.

The electronic guts of a wireless speaker project that use C.H.I.P.

If you’re like most of us at NTC, you have a bunch of old electronics that lack Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. Here are 3 projects that use C.H.I.P. to upgrade these old dust collecting devices and give them a second, more connected life!

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Accelerate Your 3D Gaming With Quake III on PocketC.H.I.P.

Alex showing off 3D accelerated Quake III on PocketC.H.I.P.

Alex showing off 3D accelerated Quake III on PocketC.H.I.P.

You’ve been asking for it and we heard you loud and clear. Today we’re releasing an alpha image for PocketC.H.I.P. that features our new MALI-400 3D acceleration driver. That’s right. You can now run Quake III with hardware acceleration directly on PocketC.H.I.P.!


Update: Take PocketC.H.I.P. Quake III to the next level with multiplayer, here’s how!


The software team has been hard at work to create this new PocketC.H.I.P. image, and there’s plenty more to read about (including shipping for the December holidays!) on the forum. But let’s just jump ahead and get Quake III running on PocketC.H.I.P. first!
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