James @ Retro Thing reviews a movie making kit from the 1930’s – “Inside the box are several complete scripts, special props mentioned in the scripts, title cards, even pre-made animated titles to splice in! Since home movies had no sound abilities, the scripts play like old silent films. This strikes me as a quite […]
We Make Money Not Art has a quick recap of some of the tech from SIGGRAPH, Thermoesthesia looks really cool – “An interesting display technology was the Thermoesthesia that their makers also call a “Thermal sense display”. Beneath the projection surface there is a matrix of 24 heat pumps. When you touch the surface, you […]
As a wee lad I worked as a tea-boy in Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Recently, I flickrchived a bunch of photos I took from that era and found this photo of an animatronic baby gorilla head that was made for the movie “Buddy.” There are a few other interesting ones to check out in the […]
Michael writes in with news from the MAKE Flickr photo pool – “1500 MAKE Flickr group users – Another milestone for ya, though 2k will be even more impressive.” – Link. Thousands of Makers and their projects all in the MAKE Flickr photo group – Join in! Let’s hit 2,000! More: View all the projects […]
Chris writes – “This is my version of the Palm Pilot Robot from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon. Their website has a simple tutorial on how to make one and even has programs to download and bring it to life. I used this opportunity to figure out the ins and outs of the laser […]
John writes – “I wrote this nifty tutorial on how to make a simple glider out of a common fast food breakfast container. Great fun for the kids and you get to work off all that yummy food you just ate.” – Link.
One of the things that’s not so cool about the new Sidekick III is the lack of customization (for example you can’t use your own MP3s as ring tones) – but here’s how to change some of the backgrounds, icons, sounds and splash screens by making a “themes” folder and using a text file / […]
