This cool hack shows you how to repurpose and take apart the cover of Esquire Magazine’s 75th Anniversary Cover which features real E-Ink. Their challenge was to find a way to extend the battery life of this display. Watch the video to see the ink changing and link below shows some pics of the stripped […]
If you’re in the Baton Rouge, Louisana area, Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft will be speaking at Louisiana State University on Wednesday, September 24th at 5pm in the Design Building, Lecture Hall 103. Don’t miss it!
The “I2C LCD Interface” lets you connect up an LCD display to a microcontroller (in this case they are using a FreeDuino controller) with only two wires. Check out the link below for the details on this setup in order to get your project displaying text in no time. I2C / SPI LCD Interface via […]
“Interference Laser Games” is an interactive game that is controlled by a laser pointer and can be aimed at any surface that the game is projected on. Check out the video to see this working with games rannging from space invaders to pong. Pretty cool, although it’s pretty much the same as using a mouse […]
Our friend Thanassis Tsiodras, who you may remember as the creator of the offline Wikipedia reader, wrote in to tell us about a handy way to plot real-time data using standard unix tools. For the last couple of years, I’ve been working on European Space Agency (ESA) projects – writing rather complex code generators. In […]
If you started RIGHT NOW, you could *possibly* get this incredible lion mask done by Halloween. Solion has put together an incredibly detailed Instructable for an animatronic lion mask with stereo night vision and amplified hearing – 117 steps! See his other animal costume work on his site, Lion of the Sun.
Sculpture duo Winter & Hörbelt created this plastic cave facing the sea on the Belgian coast. It’s made from water boxes, does anybody know what those are? Translated info page, photo page, via Milk Crate Digest.
