Processing controlled LEDs
Dan writes “I’ve been hacking Processing and TinyOS. I cobbled a little teaser demo of processing controlling an array of LED’s on a TinyOs Mote: A straight forward animation, and webcam tracking.” – Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
DIY Telephoto lens
The latest Citizen Scientist has a short how-to on making a telephoto lens from a spotting scope – “You can make a telephone lens for your camera with a spotting scope and a center-slotted aluminum bracket… The camera is attached to the bracket with a bolt that fits the camera’s tripod mount. The spotting scope […]
Solar death ray (for cooking hotdogs)
Nym writes – “Some folks from the Alternative Energy Zone have built a giant solar death ray for… cooking hot dogs. You can try it out for yourself this year at Burning Man if you head over to AEZ. Warning: Do not look into beam with remaining eye.” – Link. Related: Made on Earth from […]
Biomedical Image awards 2006 gallery
Biomedical Image awards 2006 gallery is up with an amazing collection of the microscopic, who knew bread mold could look so good! – “The fruiting body of bread mould. As the mould grows, it propagates itself by forming spores that are released into the environment and grow into new mould colonies. Colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph […]
Wooden ball speed cycle wheels
Hmm, seems like something worth (re)making, I wonder if they’re better than pneumatics for dirt – Modern Mechanix 1932 – Link.
DIY mobile art projection
The Graffiti Research Lab, the Eyebeam OpenLab and Paul Notzold have a fun Instructable on mobile outdoor projection – “Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. This tutorial comes out of trial and error […]
HOW TO – Make an Eyetap
Nym writes “Turn an old pair of glasses and a $14 philips digital camera into an eyetap to take pictures from your perspective.” – Link.