Alex’s Emergency Excuse Generator (aka ‘EEG”) uses custom code fed with random input to determine word choice, resulting in convenient untruths so lifelike – you’ll swear it actually happened! … maybe the device uses the immense computational power and the 8K words program memory of a PIC16F690 microcontroller to demodulate an advanced lexico-semantical matrix and […]
MAKE contributor Bill Gurstelle has an awesome article in the latest issue of The Atlantic about DIY, Arduino and art: For a few dollars, creative and motivated individuals–rather than just corporations or institutions–can make highly intelligent tools, perfectly customized for a particular need. …large artistic installations used to require multiple programmers and engineers. But now […]
Dream catcher CAPTCHAs by Gus23, in edition of 23. [Thanks, Tatia!] More: CAPTCHA Paintings
When your craft space is limited, you have to be inventive, which is just what Liz of Queen Lila Royalty Crafts did when she turned two IKEA Billy Bookcases in to a compact hideaway craft space. See how she did it with just a handful of supplies. [via IKEA Hacker]
It’s not quite ready for prime time, but if this video from Adobe is any indication, Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One is going to be slick.
According to Thingiverse user mappum, who recently published an STL version of a similar gizmo these beautiful do-nothings are printed to test commercial rapid prototyping machines.
Let’s be perfectly clear. We love gadgets here at MAKE. We like technology that works. Technology that expands ones reach and abilities. Technology that’s fun, challenging, and rewarding to fiddle with, improve. And technology that’s just darn cool. But there are gadget freaks like us, and then there’s the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the annual […]
