The NYC Resistor cats continue to work on their “Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas” slot machine slash barbot that tweets! The rival hackerspaces will need all their nerdgenuity to top it. Apparently, Pumping Station: One is building a bicycle-powered ice-cream maker that makes glow-in-the-dark desserts? Oh yeah!
Last night, I stumbled upon what has quickly become one of my very favorite Tumblr blogs. Max to the Moon is the “official blog of Max’s Moon Mission.” Max is an “amateur astronaut” and Max to the Moon chronicles his fictional space adventure to the moon and back. While the blog first appealed to my […]
This video guides you through developing applications for the iPhone and iPad platforms that make use of the onboard sensors: the three-axis accelerometer, the magnetometer (digital compass), the gyroscope, the camera and the global positioning system. You’ll learn how to make use of these onboard sensors and combine them to build augmented reality applications. This will give you the background to building your own applications independently using the hottest location-aware technology yet for any mobile platforms.
UNSW Industrial Design student Sam Adeloju’s Longreach Water Rescue System won this year’s James Dyson Award, surpassing the Minotaur Fire Nozzle System, Copenhagen Wheel, and Move-it cardboard hand cart for the £20,000 prize.
It’s called Charybdis, as in “between Scylla and.” Briton William Pye used a massive acrylic cylinder to give the appearance of a containerless volume of water. It’s installed at Seaham Hall, in Sunderland, England.
My pal Willow Brugh, of Jigsaw Renaissance, wrote to tell us about the GWOBorg Hackathon they’re hosting, on 10/10/10: Use your powers of Geek for Good! First responders in crisis situations need better tools. Come participate at the 10.10.10 hack-a-thon to help them out! What: a 24-hour hack-a-thon with food and drinks provided. Starting ideas […]
Nice tutorial from Ladyada, she writes – Here is a new SENSOR TUTORIAL! IR detector Make remote controls and listeners Making an Intervalometer, Read IR commands from an Apple remote, use for your projects and more!. What is an IR detection sensor? IR detectors are little microchips with a photocell that are tuned to listen […]
