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The latest issue of Robot magazine is out. As always, they’ve posted an extended article from the mag online. This one’s a run-down of all of the programming languages and development environments available for use with LEGO Mindstorms NXT. Programming Solutions for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT – Link
Special video effects are available to anyone with a cheap camcorder and $25 of software. Greenscreen is the most powerful of these, and is surprisingly easy to use.
This seems like a pretty easy way to make your real desktop clutter even worse than it is on your normal computer desktop. Still, it’s a cool way of bringing the “virtual” into physical space in order to remind us exactly how much the desktop metaphor has become entrenched in our daily lives. Move Your […]
Via Avi Abrams’ most-excellent Dark Roasted Blends comes this gorgeous AMD Athlon 64×2 Dual Core PC w/ 400GB HD housed in a 1961 REKORD Soviet TV unit. Soviet TV receiver PC case mod – [via] Link
Students at Georgia Tech have created an audio analysis program that lets you blow at your computer as a way to control it. It only uses one microphone, and after a quick calibration, it’s ready to go. This is a way to support blowing at a laptop or computer screen to directly control certain interactive […]
Jason Striegel @ Hackzine tells us about the Cornell Microcontroller Design class and their final projects this semester: Pictured above is David Drew and Joanna Dai’s autonomous neural robot, which is able to learn to navigate an enclosed space at the fastest possible speed without bumping into things. Another project, Guitar Legend Maker by Thidanun […]
On uC Hobby, they’re beginning a series on bringing sound to Arduino: This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I […]
