Moved to poetry by last weekend’s Maker Revolution, Jonathan penned this: Haiku on Maker Revolution: Seeing Legends Talk Sitting Round the Geek Camp Fire Watching People Make The Maker Revolution @ Microsoft Startup Labs from Boston Cyberarts on Vimeo. Bre had a spiffy time as well: We printed airplane wings, dodecahedrons, and chess pieces. Then […]
Our pal Eric Gradman came up with a cool augmented reality set-up for an event which poses the musical question: If you put all sorts of personal information on your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts, would you want to walk around in the real world with that data literally hanging over your head? He writes: […]
Here’s a piece on the WowWee RoboCommunity forums about adding LEDs lamps onto the head-stalk of your Rovio. One of the criticisms of the Rovio is the rather poor camera mounted in the head. The lack of lighting on the head-stalk doesn’t help. If you try and look up at something with your robo-head, and […]
Here’s a robo-blimp that some students at Colorado State University designed. They score points just for coming up with the name infraLED Zeppelin. The article includes PDF build instructions and a complete parts list. Gadget Freak Case 139: The Autonomous Blimp [Thanks, Phillip!]
Theo Watson just wrote an iPhone app to simulate spinning vinyl by spinning your phone. He writes: The app uses the accelerometer of the ipod touch to control the speed of a ‘vinyl record’ on the ipod screen. Slowing down the record and speeding it up is just a matter of controlling how fast you […]
Congrats to these CRAFT readers who won a copy of the new book, Chic Metal: Metal Jewelry to Make at Home by Victoria Tillotson in last week’s book giveaway. The winners are: Karla from Seattle, WA, Ha from Elmhurst, NY, Dawn from Clackamas, OR, Bradie from Fort Collins, CO, and Marianne from Miami, FL. Thanks […]
CRAFT friend Beth Goza (@bethgo) is doing a “Knitting in Code” at 9:45pm at Ignite Seattle 6 on Wednesday night. Beth writes: Remember the joy of writing your first Hello World application? Do you still have a copy somewhere so you can gaze upon your coded baby steps into the world of binary goodness? In […]
