The generative designers at Nervous System just blew me away for the 105th time with their Reaction Lamp: We created the lamp in Processing and it was 3d printed using Selective Laser Sintering in nylon plastic. We varied the material thickness to create an intricate effect when illuminated.
Tickets are now on sale for the Open Hardware Summit! The Open Hardware Summit will be a one day event held on Sept. 23rd at the New York Hall of Science. We hope that you’ll join us! This is the first conference of its kind, where open source hardware producers are coming together to share […]
Life-sized TIE Interceptor at Star Wars Celebration V. Photos and more at the Denver Post…
These ice cream cone balloons from the Crafts Dept. are brilliant in their simplicity. A little craft paper and some helium-filled balloons and you’ve got an instant centerpiece for a party.
Mike wrote a guide for programming MSP430 microcontrollers using the TI Launchpad under Linux. It makes use of the open source compiler MSPGCC rather than using a code-limited proprietary IDE. He writes – When TI released their Launchpad development board at the end of June it generated a lot of Buzz. Here’s a package that […]
Zork Stained Glass Window, Jason writes – By Brian Gaines. “I loved Zork so much that a high school buddy and I made ourselves stained glass windows of the logo in 1983. To the best of my knowledge, they are the only such windows in existence (but I could certainly be wrong)” No, I think […]
Playing a game on the Wii with one hand is a major selling point of the system. However, what if you don’t have a Wii or would like to play some of your older games? Dutch hardware hacker Hasse’s brother can only use one hand, so Hasse decided to remedy the situation by successfully modding a standard two-fisted controller with an accelerometer.
