This project uses a variety of sensors, Max/MSP, Jitter, and an Arduino to create an interactive virtual environment. I like the augmented plants. When the user touches the plants they create different types of musical notes. Another favorite part is the pressure sensitive moss. There is a lot more information and pictures on the website. […]
If you happened to miss The Last HOPE in NYC this year, fear not. They have released all the talks in either 16kbps or 18kbps MP3s on their website. There were a lot of great talks, and I highly suggest listening to all of them! Get your audio files from The Last HOPE [Slashdot]
This week we are going to continue with the “moving picture” theme and build a Phenakistoscope. Luckily for all of us, it’s a lot easier to build than it is to pronounce. Even better, you the first thing you need to do is eat a lollypop! Why? Well, read on. So the big question is, […]
CasaSugar shows you how to make a DIY Photo Triptych, a frame that can help make your photo collection linked together as a set.
Ambatalia Fabrics is now The Fabric Society and is looking for interns in their Mill Valley shop. (Pictured above is Ashley at her exhibit at the shop last fall.) Ashley writes: Ambatalia Fabrics is transforming into a creative resource center for sustainable textiles under art direction of Ashley Helvey and is currently looking for artists […]
If you’ve ever wanted to examine or edit a binary file in your favorite text editor, there’s an easy way to simulate a vi hex mode. To do this, you just filter the file’s contents through the xxd hex dump utility, a trick that can be accomplished right within the vi/vim interface. To convert a […]
Now this is an exciting DEFCON! I didn’t go this year, but this talk was one of the ones I was eyeing! And it’s gone total bonkers! The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has sued three MIT students — Zackary M. Anderson ’09, Russel J. Ryan ’09, and Alessandro Chiesa ’09 — and MIT to prevent […]
