Year: 2010

Codebox: Create a magic wand

Codebox: Create a magic wand

Color tracking is a simple but powerful technique for creating fun new ways to interact with software. Using a webcam as a sensor, a program is “trained” to locate a specific color on some sort of physical pointer. The colored pointer is mapped to an (x,y) coordinate as it’s moved around. Done in real time, […]

iPhone TelePrompTer

iPhone TelePrompTer

From the MAKE Flickr pool: This isn’t the first iPhone TelePrompTer we’ve featured on Make: Online but it’s definitely the slickest. Martin Taylor of San Francisco, CA, built this beauty. More: DIY Full-screen scrolling teleprompter DIY iPhone Teleprompter Weekend Project: DIY Teleprompter

Blackberry Scones

Up here in Northern California the Indian Summer weather brings Naked Ladies and ripe blackberries on the side of any and all country roads. In the past my family and I have picked buckets of them. We’ve made jam, pies, cobblers, and fruit crisps. But last weekend I tried a Blackberry Scone recipe that Craftzine […]