Year: 2008

Homebrew parametric speaker

Homebrew parametric speaker

If you’re familiar with the audio spotlight, then you now how very awesome narrow beam ultrasonic speaker devices can be. They can project a sound efficiently over long distances without spreading like common speakers. One can essentially walk into the ultrasonic line-of-fire and begin to hear sound abruptly – certainly an interesting effect. Though not […]

GO-Tech Meeting in Ann Arbor

GO-Tech Meeting in Ann Arbor

Dan Glover of GO-Tech writes: The October GO-Tech meeting (Ann Arbor, MI) is Tuesday, October 14, 8 pm, at Great Oak Cohousing (see below). This will be our 15th meeting! We’ll have a demo of FIRST pneumatics, along with the usual eclectic mix of projects. Bring something cool to show off, especially if it fits […]

Blogs We Love: Core77

This week each of us CRAFT bloggers is sharing one of our favorite blogs with you. You may be surprised to know I don’t read a ton of craft blogs, as I draw inspiration from nooks and crannies of art, design, and culture blogs. One of my favorite design blogs is Core77, a written by […]

Visualizing data … as pong

Representing invisible activities of data systems in a familiar and comprehensible manner can play vital role in understanding and troubleshooting digital systems – and heck, everybody loves PONG, right? Yup, even Apache web servers – Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation. We […]