Jacob Seidelin figured out a way to obtain EXIF data from images in Javascript, allowing AJAX applications to pull information about the make and model of camera used, as well as any aperture, focal length, or description information that may have been tagged to an image by the camera or a photo editor. The exif.js […]
No, it’s not just one of those roll-up keyboards that melted while in use – it’s keyboard pants. Sure to be standard issue hacker gear right around never. The hip mounted speaker feature though, that right there is potential teen-trend-gold, just hope the model pictured can keep ’em hiked up long enough to hear a […]
John Resig, of jQuery fame, released a port of the Processing visualization language for Javascript. Seriously, John is on fire: The first portion of the project was writing a parser to dynamically convert code written in the Processing language, to JavaScript. This involves a lot of gnarly regular expressions chewing up the code, spitting it […]
This would be a great tool for security people that are on the move. Theoretically they would be able to control camera via their iPhone from any location. Imagine being able to instantly look into rooms prior to entering. Adding a mobile interface to systems that traditionally required a user to be sitting at their […]
Keeping with the CRAFT shoe theme — Dr Martin’s has a “design your own boot” contest, so I made a boot I always wanted, one with a circuit board on it, specifically one with the Wave Bubble open source RF jammer – vote it up if you’d like to see this become a real boot […]
Combat robots, warring battleships @ Maker Faire with Boing Boing TV. Boing Boing tv’s embedded robo-combat reporter Xeni Jardin witnesses warfare inside Robogames and Combots at Bay Area Maker Faire 2008, where robots battle until death — or at least ’til one competitor busts a sprocket. Next, BB-gun wielding battleships go BOOM!, with the Western […]
In 1958 the BBC established the Radiophonic Workshop to explore and produce innovative sounds for radio programming. The group’s unconventional approach to sound synthesis and arrangement poised them at the forefront of music technology – making them the envy of many pioneering musicians. Looking back at some of their hardware setups, it’s no wonder current-day […]
