Matt writes “The stereoscope used lenses to make each eye see a separate image. It was wildly popular. In some ways it was the first “television,” found in the living-rooms and parlors of every self-respecting European and American family. 168 years later, the same basic principle is still used to create 3D movies and photographs. Here I’ve created my first stereo pair” Link.
Remember the cool Bluetooth enabled POV project (spells words in the air with light) that Mikey Sklar made? Well, he was kind enough to let us put an excellent 3 minute video in our iTunes video podcast feed. So if you’d like to see how it was made, just click here to subscribe to our iTunes feed and you’ll automatically get the video along with all the other great audio and video from MAKE (the video will play on PCs, Macs and video iPods). Link to M4V (17MB).
Batman writes “Last Aptil, MIT created their very own Disco Dance Floor. Over the summer, they released their code and sold their PCB boards online, and here are some examples of what people have done with it: WashU’s Disco Dance Floor, Clint’s Disco Dance Floor, Tom’s Disco Dance Floor (in German), and David’s Disco Bar!” Link.
Michael writes “The InventionDB iPod contest is ending on Sunday 1/8/06. The contest will award the best project entry with a 30 gigabyte iPod video. Creators of any age and experience level are welcome to enter – all you have to do is create a project entry with three images and three connected resources. Entries are judged primarily on quality of the documentation (concise description, pictures, resources, etc.). InventionDB.com is an online database of projects, resources, creators, communities and vendors. It provides users with free tools to quickly build online project documentation.” Link.
Video of a wireless MIDI glove…“haduz is a 24 year-old computer engineering graduate and musician from Bologna, Italy. He’s developed the 3DID wireless MIDI glove, with 5 bend sensors (I’m guessing that’s fingers), 3 gyroscopes, 3 accelerometers and 18 hours of battery life. As he says: “The most exciting thing is that the cost of the actual prototype (the glove shown in the video) together with the wireless receiver is about 150 euros.” Thanks Tom! Link.
Hunter is looking for some ideas for the discarded game gear he found, post up in the comments! – “My friend and I had an unusually lucky day and we got a lot of free electronics. Some of them working and some not. Here’s what we got: N64 – working, original playstation – working PS2 – works sometimes, Gameboy pocket – not working, gamecube – almost new condition and working and working we already have all of these so we were wondering if you would have any suggestions on how we could mod them or what we could make them into. it doesnt necessarily have to be all of them together. we were thinking about making the PS2 sphere but the PS2 doesnt work all the time and there isnt a step by step instruction on how to make the PS2 sphere.”
