And you thought your Tokyoflash watch was big and nerdy lookin’ Here’s an MP3 wrist gauntlet created by “porkshanks” (aka Molly Friedrich) and posted in her DeviantArt gallery. Molly writes: I bought a pair of vintage Cannonball Empire headphones off Ebay and I disassembled and gutted them. I then transplanted the working parts of a […]
Here’s a nice way to relive the old school gaming relics. This watch by Nixon allows you to play Tetris and Pong side by on your wrist while simultaneously trying to figure out what the current time is. Is that the score? Is it the time? Who knows. Just be sure you aren’t trying to […]
There are a couple decent software packages available for using your soundcard as an oscilloscope. Using the line-in or mic-in will allow you to sample signals below 44.1kHz with 16-bit resolution (depending on your soundcard). For Linux, there’s an open source GTK package called xoscope that is pretty well maintained. On the PC side, you […]
This coming Thursday is our last Dorkbot DC gathering for ’07. It’ll be held at Smith Hall of Art, Room 114, George Washington University, 801 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20037. See our (newly designed) website for more info/directions. Here’s the event flier: Schedule for Next Meeting (last one in 2007) Gareth Branwyn: Maker Faire: […]
In Japan we met with Shigeru Kobayashi (gainer.cc). gainer.cc is an open source Cypress chip-based dev board with an open IDE. Shigeru is working on a wireless XBee prototyping dev board (above). Shigeru also has a new book Physical computer with gainer it’s somewhat like our Making things talk but in Japanese and gainer specific […]
Swissmiss points to this stylish bird house by foldingj on Craftster that uses colorful old CD Jewel Cases. [ via ] Link.
Johnny Lee at Carnegie Mellon University figured out how to use the Wiimote’s infrared camera to track his fingers, Minority Report style. Link. (Thanks, Matt!)
