Bridger Maxwell has been blogging his progress on creating a homebrew multi-touch platform in OS X. Prior to this, there’s been a lot of activity around building multi-touch systems on Windows using the Touchlib library, but this is the first time I’ve seen a concerted effort on OS X. The basic hardware is the same […]
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes: The default Mac OS X (I’m on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif with an alpha channel will appear to be “on top” of the previous image, and as […]
This is an amazing robot created by David Bowen. Here is how he explains his Growth Rendering Device: This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic solution for the plant. The plant reacts to the device by growing. The device in-turn reacts to the plant by producing a rasterized inkjet drawing of […]
Guy worked on these pieces from 1986 – 2006. Over the course of 20 years he has moved from finding his parts at local shops, to scouring the Internet for interesting pieces. These are some of the most amazing electronic sculptures I have ever seen. In each piece I attempt to design circuitry that creates […]
This project is for those of you that want to explore communications via LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites. You can manually point your antenna, but a micro-controller makes it a whole lot easier. The basis for operation is fairly straightforward. A tracking program (WiSP, Nova for Windows, The Station Program, and DK1TB’s SatPC32 program are […]
Love your Boarduino but hate that FTDI cable? Ladyada to the rescue again, with a new kit: a USB Boarduino kit, with the FTDI chip (surface mount) and USB port pre-soldered and tested for kit-assembling ease! Related: Boarduino – Breadboard-compatible Arduino clone
It’s always nice to see ‘darn cute’ & ‘genuinely interesting’ join forces – especially when it demonstrates autonomous extraction of task constraints (to the Benny Hill theme) – The Chief Cook Robot learning to cook an omelet by whipping eggs, cutting ham and grating cheese. Through the use of a probabilistic model using Gaussian Mixture […]
