That’s Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled wheel. As an idea it’s at least as old as 1938, but it’s lately been re-discovered by Curtis Boirum, an MS Mechanical Engineering student at Bradley University in Peoria, IL.
Jessica of How About Orange shares another project using the versatile paint chip. I’d love a little rainbow row of these sweet boxes along a window ledge. More: Pixelated Art From Paint Chips Embroidered Paint Chip Cards
The makers of the Video Experimenter Shield for Arduino have used their product to create an instantly updating word cloud from over-the-air television closed captioning data. The NTSC video is passed through the shield and the Arduino sends the closed captioning text to the computer via serial. The cloud is generated by a Processing sketch, which makes words larger if they’re spoken more frequently.
Check out this faithful reproduction of the Android logo made from an old trash can. The arms are articulated, the eyes are LEDs, and it runs on USB rechargeable batteries.
Tiburcio and his daughter Helena have an interesting tool for learning when an online purchase has been made from their web store — an Arduino-controlled Wario toy. Tiburcio explains: I wanted something nice to have at the office that tell us every time someone make a purchase on our game. Every time we make a […]
Interview by Brookelynn Morris Diane Gilleland is a gem. Her website, CraftyPod, is an alpha blog that the entire community turns to for inspiration. Diane works tirelessly to champion the unknown crafter and is a proponent of concepts that many bloggers neglect, like attribution. She also recognizes that when crafters blog, they are often posting […]
In honor of Design & Photography month, I thought I’d share a wonderful user-contributed photoblog, Dear Photograph. The idea is simple — “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present”. Ha! OK, that may sound complicated, but it’s easy to see what 22-year-old DP creator, Taylor Jones, is talking about. [See […]
