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Whenever I start a new project, I find it helpful to define several key items. These typically involve defining what the customer requirements are, and what tools are available to meet those requirements. The customer for this project is a friend who recently converted a shuttered electronics supply warehouse into an 8000 square foot mixed-used […]
Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post generates sound and an array of scrolling text from net-based conversation – Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, […]
Jorge Colombo created the artwork for the June 1st issue of The New Yorker using the Brushes app on his iPhone.
Registration is now open for CommunityOne West, June 1-3, 2009, San Francisco. Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. The main conference on Monday, June 1, is free, but space is limited. Deep Dive tutorials on Tuesday, […]
Microsoft has teamed up with Make: Online to develop a series of embedded projects that make use of Windows Embedded CE, Visual Studio 2005 Pro, and third-party embedded hardware. We’ve brought our pal Kipp Bradford on-board to create three Windows Embedded-based projects and to document them, here on Make: Online and on Microsoft’s SPARK Your […]
This stylishly impractical backlit logo iPhone case mod involves a Dremel and apparently doesn’t affect battery life. I’d be curious to see if there was any material on the build process as the video only shows the end result. Quite the superfan mod, though.
Check out this iPhone-controlled 5×7 laser matrix built utilizing 35 laser pointers, a PIC16F722 microcontroller, some miscellaneous parts, and a custom iPhone app.
