Via BB, Kevin Kelly writes: This is Tanya Vlach’s new eyeball. She lost her real one in a car accident a few years ago. I met Tanya at a film festival recently. During our conversation she said she was looking for help in turning her artificial eye into a eye-cam. You know, a mini web […]
Today, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories announced a new kit, the Meggy Jr RGB. Meggy is a development platform for handheld pixel games built around a 8×8 RGB LED matrix display and driven by an ATmega168 MCU. You can write your own games for it and use it through the Arduino dev environment. Nifty! A unique […]
In search of smooth-spinning hardware to use as a rotary input device, nvillar made use of an old hard drive – resulting in a sweet controller with excellent aesthetics – We admired the quality of the bearings in the motor that drives the disk plates, enjoyed the fact that even a soft flick would get […]
The Deputy Dog site has a nice roundup of knitted graffiti pieces (ok, some are crochet), many of which we’ve seen on here before. Fun!
Hosting the Maker Workshop segment of the upcoming Make: television show has been a quick education on how TV is made. The show is done as a two-camera shoot. This means there are two cameramen, one covering me and another covering the project. It’s a great way to shoot, because it allows the editor to […]
iOscilloscope displays the iPhone’s mic in as waveform with fast fourier transform or Sonogram modes – iOscilloscope For a more advanced view check out SignalScope – Analyze signals coming from the iPhone’s built-in or headset microphone, or from the built-in accelerometer. Zoom in or out on spectrum and waveform displays with two-finger expand/pinch gestures, even […]
Writer/puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal has an excellent piece on papier-mache. Papier-mache is one of the oldest forms for creating puppets and so a lot of people think that there must be something better out there. Actually, there are very few contenders. Done well, papier-mache is light, strong, fast, and non-toxic. I know, we’ve all had […]
