A.M. Eye Candy – Vintage Beaded Collar
Melissa at Yummy Goods gave a rundown of some recent second-hand finds of hers, and I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this vintage beaded collar she happened upon. It’s stunning!
Year: 2009
Unraveling capacitors
From the NYCResistor crew comes this action-packed crash-course in capacitors – complete with a cliffhanger ending! Here’s hoping the saga continues with a miniature rescue mission via shrink ray (they must have one in their somewhere, right?) If after that, cap functionality still seems a bit fuzzy, check out this rather helpful little web demonstration […]
SixthSense wearable data interface
The SixthSense project from the MIT Media Lab aims to seamlessly integrate digital information with our everyday physical world. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, […]
Arduino bicycle gear indicator
MAKE subscriber Dan Wagoner sent us this digital gear indicator project he spotted on the Arduino forums – I did this as a practice project for building a gear indicator for my motorcycle. The idea is that by monitoring the revolution speed of the rear wheel and of the driving pedal I can calculate which […]
Flash bridge for Facebook Connect
Pieter Michels wrote a nice actionscript/javascript bridge that allows you to use Facebook Connect services within a Flash application: It currently supports automatic login, retrieving friend list and friend information (can take a while), current application users, sharing a link on Facebook, posting a predefined story and updating your story (make sure you set the […]
Reformatting memory cards
Dale tweets: “Did not know that you should reformat flash memory cards frequently for your camera. More to do.” And points to this New York Times Gadgetwise column: Reformatting ensures that the data on the card and the file structure are clean, which will help you avoid error messages or missing images. And the longer […]
Makers Birthdays: Joseph Priestley
Today is the birthday of Joseph Priestley, the 18th century scientist, teacher, and political wonk who had a tremendous impact on the worlds of science and politics. He is credited with the discovery of oxygen (isolating it in its gaseous state). Priestley has been the subject of two “recent” books, The Lunar Men (actually five […]