Weekend Project: USB Motion Detector
Turn your PC into an ambush multimedia presenter. Get the schematic here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/weekend_project_usb_motion_detector.html
Month: March 2009
In the Maker Shed: Gakken’s EX-150
Available at http://www.makershed.com
The Gakken EX-System is a series of educational electronics kits produced by Gakken in the late 1970s. The kits use denshi blocks (also known as electronic blocks) to allow electronics experiments to be performed easily and safely. Over 25 years after its original release, one of the main kits from the series was reissued in Japan in 2002 and now you can get it here! Instruction Manual Included is in Japanese. English PDF Instructions available.
Weekend Project: Cellular Automata
This easy to construct kit is a fun way to play with cellular automata and video synthesis. When complete you will be able to uncover endless visual and sound patterns on any TV, no programming necessary. Available in the Maker Shed. http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKCG1
Maker Profile – Computer Making Music on Make: television
Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. Based at Stanford University, CCRMA teams composers, artists and acoustical researchers together to meld music with new technology and explore the outer limits of audio from playground-activated sounds to laptop orchestras. Then see the origins of the synthesizer.
Learn more about CCRMA at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/
How-To: Lengthen Kids’ Pants
Following with our March is Mending Month theme, today I’ll be showing you how to add a little length to your children’s pants so they can wear them longer. One issue I constantly face with my kids’ pants (especially my daughter’s) is that they will fit in the waist for a long time, but get […]
Dan Kaminsky at HacDC tonight! (and a side order of Daemon)
Dan Kaminsky, the computer consultant who found a fundamental vulnerability in the Web’s DNS, so fundamental, it could have given him theoretical control over every domain on the Web, will be giving a last-minute talk tonight at HacDC. He’ll be talking about this amazing story as well as talking about some current research, to be […]
Floating hamster balls for kids
This looks like it could be fun/dangerous. It might be fun to set them up in a big field and let the kids roll wild. Maybe get access to a dead mall and roll away. Kid hamster ball soccer anyone? Have you ever seen these things in the wild? Do you have pictures? What is […]
