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Muris sent us a link to his homemade all-in-one turntable/intervalometer for taking 360 degree object photographs automatically. The system runs from a PC, running an interface program Muris wrote himself, through a single USB port. Both turntable position and camera shutter are automatically controlled.
It may be some time before we start to see mainstream adoption of Project Glass-like augmented reality, but in the meantime, that’s not stoping folks like AR hacker Will Powell from rolling their own solution from off the shelf components.
This 300-step Rube Goldberg Machine claims the world’s record: The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own world record for largest Rube Goldberg machine with a 300-step behemoth that flawlessly accomplished the simple task of blowing up and popping a balloon – setting the new world record for the Largest functional Rube Goldberg […]
As first reported on MacRumors, AT&T has begun unlocking iPhones for customers who: Have an account in good standing Have an iPhone that’s not currently under an active term commitment I’ve got an iPhone 3GS and AT&T service that meets both requirements, so as soon as I’d gotten my fill of Easter chocolate, I hopped […]
Folks who are deafblind traditionally focus on physical contact to communicate and use a verbose form of signing called Lorm. In an attempt to facilitate fast, casual conversation, and general mobility, researchers at Berlin’s Design Research Lab built the Mobile Lorm Glove to facilitate two-way digital communication.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Wanna shoot fireballs from the palm of your hand? Of course you do. When Joel Johnson set out to fashion his own fireball shooter, he was intent on making one with a minimum of parts that was small enough to be concealed in his hand. He shared his “Orpheus Shooter” build with us back in […]
