Natalie Jeremijenko’s new “environmental health clinic”… In a bright studio at New York University, Natalie Jeremijenko welcomes visitors to her environmental health clinic. She wears a white lab coat with a rotated red cross on the pocket. A clipboard with intake forms hangs by the door. Inside, circuit boards, respirators, light bulbs, bike helmets and […]
CircuitPeople made a site where you can upload Gerbers in a zip file for easy viewing (PNG) via Ladyada. Also check out gerbv.
Photos from the 1st “Tangible Exchange”, RoBo writes – Many thanks to the organizer/presenters Alice Tseng-Planas and Syuzi Pakhchyan, Mark Allen for availing Machine Project, presenters JooYoun Payek and Gilad Lotan, and the assembly! I’d guess we had about 30 people at this first meet-up. Some were in town for SIGGRAPH 2008, some had met […]
By default, Google Mail sets a session cookie that doesn’t have the secure flag, meaning that if you log in to GMail, leave, and later return to the unencrypted “http://” URL (instead of “https://”), your browser will transmit your session information in plain-text to the server. This problem gained some attention last year and we […]
The “CotsBots” are inexpensive, modular mobile robots created from off-the-shelf components. The bots are “meant as a platform to investigate algorithms, cooperation, and distributed sensing in large robot networks.” Each bot includes built in radio communication, and are written in TinyOS, an open source system for large-scale distributed sensor networks. Pretty cool idea that we […]
This open source serial to MIDI converter lets you easily get MIDI data from your Arduino to any Windows MIDI application of your choice over USB. Pretty cool hack that avoids the need for a MIDI out circuit for your Arduino or USB/MIDI converter to your computer. S2MIDI: Open Source Serial to MIDI Converter for […]
Canadian artist Joe McKay’s “Cellphone Piano” conects up each key on a standard synth keyboard to a corresponding key on a cell phone. As you play each note, you are dialing a number on the phone and each black key played speaks the number out loud. Just don’t get carried away or you might see […]
