The 2009 Bent Fest will go down on April 16-18 at The Tank in NYC featuring performances by – Dr. Bleep Lesley Flanigan Tristan Perich NO CARRIER / Don Miller Operation Playmate Todd Michael Bailey and many more In addition to performances, there’ll be a launch party for the new edition of Nic Collins Handmade […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool After experimenting a bit with ARToolKit, melkaone came up with this intriguing demo for an augmented reality sculpting system with force feedback via Arduino – As you can see, this is just a proof of concept, I only worked on it this morning, but I think it has great potential. […]
Brilliant. Although Eve would probably make even more sense. Bookofjoe [via Evil Mad Scientist Labs’ Twitter feed]
The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the theme […]
I was excited when the Chronulator came out and am still a fan of the kit. But I’ve been somewhat disappointed with what people have done with it. I expected they’d be more hacks to the circuit and lots of seriously-cool cases. Like this one — a gorgeous construction, made of brass curtain parts, a […]
Udi Tirosh writes in with this neat trick: use a tubular light like those found in car accessory shots as a sweeping swath light painting tool for long exposure photography. Looks way trippier than just using LEDs.
If you’ve been curious about Hadoop, the open source cloud computing software, there’s a really great set of introductory lectures being provided by Cloudera. In addition to building and supporting Hadoop clusters for commercial applications, the Cloudera folks have also been providing a wealth of information on installing and optimizing Hadoop on your own hardware, […]
