SethJ writes – “tired of hi-def? (booo!!!) here’s how to convert otherwise reasonable quality video into pixelated garbage and play it on a 2 color 8×8 led matrix, with no sound and only moderate sync. ingredients: – (1) 8×8 2 color led matrix – (1) atmel avr atmega168 – (2) 74hc595 shift register – (1) […]
This little web cam accessory ($99) is like a periscope so you can look directly at the person you’re video conferencing with… might be a fun re-make, links below to get you started – Link. Related: DIY Full-screen scrolling teleprompter – Link. DIY Plasti-Prompter – Link. From the pages of MAKE: No More Cue Cards. […]
Artist Guido Daniele has an incredible gallery of body paint art – the animal series is great! [via] – Link.
Falconphysics writes – “I teach high school physics and I use a lot of expensive probeware to collect data. The only reason I can do this is my school has been collecting the probes over a number of years, building our collection slowly over time. For those who aren’t science teachers, probeware refers to a […]
This is nice, a squid shaped iPod cozy tutorial… good project to start out with if you’re thinking about knitting… [via] – Link.
TAPR.org has some pretty intense kits for transmitting data over packet radio, you could use one of their kits with a PIC microcontroller to take serial data from a GPS receiver or weather station and transmit it as formatted packet frames… Here’s a bit about the organization and the kit store page… “If you have […]
Tool Using Animal shows you how to mod a flashlight with UV LEDs – good for mineral fluorescence, scorpion hunting and vaseline glass shopping. “Danger Will Robinson, This is a UV mod for my beloved harbor freight flashlight So here comes the disclaimers. UV is dangerous, it’ll give you cancer, cataracts, and steal your check […]
