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The viSparsh belt developed by Young India Fellows Rolly Seth, Jatin Sharma and Tushar Chugh in New Delhi with guidance by Rahul Mangharam of the University of Pennsylvania, is a computer vision assisted haptic feedback system that uses a Microsoft Kinect to detect objects near the wearer and notifies them through an array of vibration motors across the belt
Out pals at adafruit have just released Circuit Playground, an app for iPhone and iPad that combines a bunch of handy electronics references and calculators in one attractive interface. It’s $2.99 from the AppStore. An Android version is reportedly in the works, but I understand the adafruit folks are not in too much of a […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… whole lotta steel from Hufnagel Cycles. ferrofluid close up from Matt Abinante. chuck key from jmillerid. army men bowl 01 from Whamodyne. LaserGlasses from Pete Prodoehl. Just resurrected Mousey the Junkbot! from nitdoggx. Switch from TomMadeO.
Jake Easton’s Better Mousetrap is electrically and pneumatically powered, weighs almost six pounds, features a key lock switch and a manual safety, and strikes with 102 pounds of force. I think they foleyed that crunching noise in the video, however. Sounds like a bag of Fritos, to me.
Relays can do cool stuff when you hook them up to the Internet. Check out XDA member JsChiSurf demonstrate his Android controlled garage door opener. Using an old Linux box connected to a serial relay, he’s able to toggle his garage door opener using a custom app from his Android handset.
Check out this heirloom quality capacitive touch stylus from Talking Rock, Georgia maker Stephanie McLaughlin. Each stylus Stephanie makes is hand-turned on a lathe and made from quality materials.
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/.
