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This interactive mirror by Open Gadgets uses a IOIO Microcontroller with a Bluetooth module to communicate with an Android phone. There are a few apps such as a picture viewer, a magic 8-ball, and the phone can even stream video to the mirror.
Lior Elazary’s Mechanical CPU Clock intrigues me — it’s a clock that simulates the way a CPU works: For a CPU to do any meaningful work, it needs to be told what to do. This comes in the form of instructions. For this wall clock I will only concentrate on the hours to make things […]
We’ve seen iPhone binder clip tripod mounts before, but this new version by Imgur user playstationfire is novel in that rather than clamping the phone, it uses the wire handles of two opposing clips to cradle the device. [via Lifehacker]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, uploaded by Addie Wagenknecht, who identifies it as a “speed project” by her studio Nortd labs (her partner in which is Stefan Hechenberger), under the auspices of her/their ongoing residency at Carnegie Mellon’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. If you’re confused, just click through…
One of our lab interns, Paul Mundell, is inspired by Volume 30’s Smarter Homes theme to create a media server from his ailing laptop.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Brent Thorne is building a laser-cut wooden computer that can draw fractals.
