Make It Better Video
MAKE IT BETTER from Clim on Vimeo. In the spirit of all things “Make,” I thought I’d share this fun little video by Climent Canal and Sebastián Baptista. Great type, great message. How will you make it better?
Month: July 2011
One-Sheet Plywood Boat – Tiny Yellow House
For this episode of “Tiny Yellow House” for Make Magazine, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen pulls another idea from his book Humble Homes, Simple Shacks. This time, its an easy wooden boat made from little more than one sheet of plywood. More info: http://wp.me/p1CIX9-qLg
Kinect Point Cloud Visualizer
I attended the NYC Hack and Tell Meetup last night and saw Lee Felarca give demonstrations of his “work in progress” Kinect hacks. Using openFrameworks, and written in C++, Lee said he was mostly just interested in learning C++ – some filters he wrote include explosions (above), alpha trails, particle emitter, and strobe.
UPDATED! Is Microsoft Taking Credit for “Kinect Hacking”…?
Yes, it does seem the Microsoft PR machine & (new) Kinect studio team is trying to take credit for the open source “Kinect hacking” community and says they purposely “allowed” hacking – the report ignores the efforts from all the open source Kinect hackers out there and how this all happened. They also left out the threatening and intimidating when Johnny Lee, Limor “Ladyada” and myself first started the Kinect bounty and got the open source drivers out there with Hector. When then all watched an amazing open source community flourish. It’s also a little confusing because Kinecthacks.net is not part of Microsoft in any way… WIRED has a full write up on the real story from the most recent issue.
How-To: Create Sparkly Bokeh Effects in Your Photos
We’ve mentioned “Bokeh” here before – it’s a photography technique that involves, basically, interesting blurring. (In fact, the term comes from the Japanese word boke-aji, meaning, “blur quality.”) MAKE’s Matt Richardson has a great how-to video showing you how easy it is to create bokeh effects in any shape you like – all you need […]
Slate on Ravelry
Stephanie of Your Phantom Limb shared this Slate article about Ravelry that caught my attention. For all the knitters and crocheters out there, I’m betting that you’ve been loving Ravelry for a long time now…
Tool Review: Gilmour 528T Solid Brass Twist Hose Nozzle
This morning I was rolling the empty trash bin back from the curb, and I noticed there was some grime down in the bottom. “Let’s wash that out with the hose,” I thought, and turned and started rolling for the spigot. About halfway there, it occurred to me: I don’t really care if there’s a bit of grime in the bottom of my city trash bin–that’s pretty much what it’s there for. I was just looking for an excuse to use my shiny new brass hose nozzle.
