The O’Reilly Digital Media Center has a fun how to on making Cylon-y sounding voices – “You’ve heard their smoothly sexy yet alien voices. Vocoders are devices that make ordinary sounds sing or speak recognizable words. In this hands-on tutorial, Jim Aikin explains how vocoders perform their magic and how to set up your own […]
Here’s some (more) video from the Robo-One 9 event held last week in Tokyo – [via] – Link. I love how the little red bot jogs around and pwns the other bots. Previous & related: OMNIZERO.2 – Technical robot marvel (Video) – Link. Robo-One 9: RAYERD-X – The Magical Robot (Video) – Link. Roomba fighting […]
Aaron writes – “Dremel just got a lot of good press and reactions from their new Dremel Stylus. Looks like they’re continuing to expand in to new form factors with the Workstation, which allows a standard Dremel to be used as a mounted rotary tool and even as a drill press.” – Link. Not too […]
The gang at Xbox-scene have some shots and info of a handy adaptor that will connect your Xbox360 HD to your PC without cracking open the case – 360Sata Adapter & Link.
Tim writes – “We will be sponsoring a treehouse building workshop in Santa Cruz, CA (about an hour south of San Francisco) on May 5,6 and 7th. The world famous treehouse builder and innovator Michael Garnier will be teaching the workshop. He owns Treesort treehouse resort in Takilma, OR and has built a treehouse for […]
Gina on Lifehacker has a great guide on setting up your own Wiki – could be really handy for collaborative projects and other Maker activities. “The software that runs Wikipedia, called MediaWiki, is freely available for anyone to install. Today we’ll set up MediaWiki on your Windows PC and get started with a video demonstration […]
Bre writes – “I collect lenses out of cameras and put them on other stuff. I used gaffer tape to make my nokia 7610 have a fisheye.” Full photo set here – Link. If you get bored with your camera phone, this is a lot of fun.
