Month: March 2006

Taking apart Cube World

Taking apart Cube World

Wan & Carolyn write – “Here is a look inside Cube World…These are cool little cubes that are fun by themselves, but will interact when connected together! It would be great if we could figure out how to program our own graphics so we could introduce new “interactions”!!!! “ – Link.

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OGLE Captures Texture Coords…

OGLE Captures Texture Coords…

Warcraft virtual-worlders, this is for you…Fruminator writes – “As of OGLE 0.3b, it is possible to capture texture coordinates (UV) for vertices that have them. This is enabled by the CaptureTextureCoords flag. Coupled with the fact that GLIntercept writes out to disk images for all the texture maps, this allows you to re-texture your capture […]

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Papercraft of Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle

Papercraft of Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle

Gail writes – “I love Hayao Miyazaki. I also love papercrafts. Only Epson in Japan is offering a free download of Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle the papercraft model. The pattern is quite large as is the final model.” – Link.

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Hektor – The spray painting robot

Hektor – The spray painting robot

Clever design for a spray painting bot – “Hektor consists of a suitcase which contains two electric motors, a spray-can holder, toothed belts, cables, a strong battery and a circuit board which is connected to a laptop and controls the machine. The motors that are mounted onto the wall suspend the can holder through the […]

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Interactive robot art helps your self esteem

Interactive robot art helps your self esteem

Robot gossip has a neat robot art project from Thomas Edwards – “Sycophant explores the relationship between viewers and a human-like robot. The human head is mounted on a motorized base which moves along a track. As a viewer walks by, the head follows on the track, while plying him or her with a cornucopia […]

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Learn How to Knit “George” at the Maker Faire

Learn How to Knit “George” at the Maker Faire

Join Jess Hutch for her “Knit a Toy” workshop at the Maker Faire and learn how you can make your own version of George shown here. Jess will be teaching her workshop on Saturday, April 22 from 12:30 – 1:30pm and will also be around at our Craft Corner later on that afternoon to meet […]

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