MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project
Google and MIT are pleased to announce the initial free and open-source release from Google of the App Inventor source code at http://code.google.com/p/app-inventor-releases/.
Computers & Mobile
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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… E-Bike stretch Cruiser from kiteanderl. Halo Reach EOD from Tsabo Tsaboc. Manikin Figure Lamp with iPad 01 from Whamodyne. Russian toy rocket kit from lookseeseen. HIV Viral Cell from chimaeraphoto. Soma Cube from 3D King. Together from funnypolynomial.
Analog Video Mixer for iPhone
Conceived as a simple way to record both sides of a conversation in a single shot for a documentary about love filmed in Paris, The Love Box has a name more likely to elicit a stare rather than a split screen. It achieves its effect using a single mirror mounted on a slide and rotated 16º from the camera.
Open Modular Controller Framework
If you produce music using a computer and off the shelf gear isn’t cutting it for you, check out FuzzyWobble‘s Framework For Making Affordable & Stylish Modular Controllers instructable and build yourself the controller you’ve always wanted. Under the hood he’s using a Teensyduino to act as native MIDI/USB/HID device, while the exterior is laser […]
Early Russian Hydraulic Computer
In the heyday of analog computing, Vladimir Lukyanov designed an advanced computer that used water as the storage media. Various tubes, tanks, valves, pumps and sluices churned out solutions for the user based on variables such as changing tax rates or increasing money supply. From the Russian magazine Science and Life:
Gorilla Glass
Reportedly, fully 20 percent—some 200 million—of the world’s mobile devices incorporate a clear cover made of Corning’s Gorilla Glass brand toughened aluminosilicate glass. Depending on the particular test used to make the determination, Gorilla Glass is seven or eight times stronger than the common soda-lime glasses used, for instance, in most windowpanes.
Kinect Controlled Android 4.0 Projection
It’s not quite as dramatic as Minority Report, but this ad hoc presentation by Kinect hacker DDRBoxman of Recursive Penguin seems to have recreated something strikingly similar to the gestural interface from the 2002 blockbuster running on a Galaxy Nexus handset.
