Attention Ann Arbor makers – GO-Tech will be gathering this eve @ a new earlier time of 7 pm. Dale writes – We’ll have the Five-Minute Timer Contest (see below) and a talk on EMC2, the open source CNC software that many of us use. We’ll also have our usual 5-minute presentations on projects. The […]
Feeling Stitchy tips us off to these positively flippin’ adorable cross-stitch patterns from Peguin and Fish. Too cute!
It seems like one of the trickiest components in a wearable computer is coming up with a wearable display device that’s usable, not overly intrusive, and preferably inexpensive. Last November, I posted about Raif Ackermann’s Nokia-based wearable that uses a hacked Myvu Crystal headset as a head mounted display. Meant for privately watching iPod videos, […]
These chandeliers by Stuart Karten are made from hundreds of dollar bills in different currencies including dollars, euros, and pesos. In a time when the US national economy is ailing from recession, the idea of putting money somewhere you can see it (such as directly over the dinner table) might seem crazy, although it might […]
”Array” is an art installation at the Yamaguchi Center for the Arts and Media (YCAM) consisting of a field of columns that create a light and sound array that shifts with viewers movements through the space. This project is similar to the “Constellation” project in Covent Garden, London that contains 600 custom designed LED mirrored […]
Tom Igoe, author of Making Things Talk, is in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador, applying his sensor and embedded hacking skills to tracking monkeys (from Part 4 of his adventure postings): This morning, Kevin and Tony and I went to look for titi monkeys. We didn’t find any, but we did manage to get lost, […]
GPSd is a TCP daemon that displays location data that’s been polled from a connected GPS device. The are a lot of unix location-aware applications that use GPSd instead of communicating directly with a GPS device since it allows more than one application to access the device at a time. Seth Just sent us a […]
