Sometimes I need to send files to people that are too large to attach to an email. Inevitably, the solution is to upload it to an ftp or web server that I have access to and then send the recipient a download url. It’s a pretty inefficient process, and unless you like your ftp server […]
Here is a project by Timothy Twillman that was exhibited at the Spring ITP show. Timothy made a cool, interactive, LED staff that uses a ZigBee for wireless communications with a computer. This allows for remote programming and synchronization between several LED staffs. It can even be used as a POV display. The project is […]
Here is another fun way to irritate & annoy people. This time the noisemaker uses an ATtiny2313 to generate random noises. The website has all the code & schematics so you can build your own Sanity Nullifier. The device beeps a short beep of a very annoying frequency in random times. The time between beeps […]
These tactile transceivers use conductive fabric and small disk motors to wirelessly share touches upon the wrist – Epafi is a pair of bracelets built to simulate the common and playful exchange of touch amongst mates, loved ones, or even close friends. Whenever either of the wearers touch the bracelet worn on their wrist, the […]
I got a chance to talk with Adam Parrish at the ITP show about his project called the “Autonomous Parapoetic Device”. I have to thank him for tearing it completely apart so I could see the “guts” of the piece. Here is how Adam describes his work: The Autonomous Parapoetic Device is a self-contained and […]
This “Butterfly GPS” device was built with an ATmega169 microcontroller, a GPS receiver board based on the SiRF chipset, and an LCD screen that reads out the data in real-time as location, date and time. Very simple construction and nice details on how it was built at the PDF link below. A Butterfly GPS (PDF), […]
This project provides a way to do Linux-only USB communications with a PIC18F4550. This setup provides a kernel module in the development tool allowing for raw transfers from the PIC to the PC. Nice to see all OSes represent in the PIC interface family. Linux-only PIC development framework, [via]
