Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
Gijs Gieskes is a Dutch hacker and circuit-bender who’s built this automated kaleidoscope machine with interchangeable optics barrels. He uses it to create visuals for his GameBoy music concerts.
D’oh! Sorry ‘bot that, folks. Thanks for catching that sohcahtoa…
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Yeah, but the pictures are different and now there’s a video.
I have to admit, when I started watching the video (without reading anything else), I thought this was a pretty stupid and pointless gadget, but when I realized it was integrated with the camera for real-time graphics and saw the really cool results toward the end of the video, I was really impressed. Very cool.
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Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
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this was also just posted 2 weeks ago
D’oh! Sorry ‘bot that, folks. Thanks for catching that sohcahtoa…
Yeah, but the pictures are different and now there’s a video.
I have to admit, when I started watching the video (without reading anything else), I thought this was a pretty stupid and pointless gadget, but when I realized it was integrated with the camera for real-time graphics and saw the really cool results toward the end of the video, I was really impressed. Very cool.