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Hunyue of HY Research has turned the awesome Beagle Board into a complete mobile internet platform, with a 4.3″ touchscreen, battery power capability, some extra side controls, and a CNC case. It won’t win any design or beauty contests, but it’s still pretty cool. Beagle MID
Sunday’s DIY workshop at CHI 2009 was a great time, with a thoughtful mix of academia and hands-on projects. DIY for CHI was a workshop presented at the CHI2009 conference in Boston. We had a chance to meet and greet important people who are teaching and studying the arts of creating computer interfaces with students […]
My friend Thomas Edwards writes: Everyone seems to be using OpenSound Control (OSC), so I figured I’d try controlling pd (aka Pure Data) on my MacBook from my iPhone using the TouchOSC app. He shows you how he set it up on his blog. Tech Art Blog
Take an old outdated PS/2 or USB ball mouse and turn it into a handy multimedia controller.
In case you missed last night’s Nightline segment on the DIY movement and MAKE, featuring Mister Jalopy and Mark Frauenfelder and scenes from Make: television and Maker Faire, ABC News now has it on their website. It’s the “Do It Yourself” segment. More: Welcome Nightline viewers!
Moleskine is offering a new service where they let you print whatever you want on the pages of one of their notebooks. Great for keeping your address book handy without re-writing it every time you get a new notebook. Via Core77.
From the MAKE Flickr pool After experimenting a bit with ARToolKit, melkaone came up with this intriguing demo for an augmented reality sculpting system with force feedback via Arduino – As you can see, this is just a proof of concept, I only worked on it this morning, but I think it has great potential. […]
