When I created the “Hackers in Your Neighborhood” map last December, I wasn’t sure what the response would be. I was really happy to see it end up being really positive, with lots of hackers and organizations adding their marker to the map. I was just peeking in on its progress today and it looks […]
I just got a firsthand look at the Arduino Pocket Piano from Critter & Guitari. Looks like much future fun – expect to see more on it soon.
I haven’t done any coding in Flex yet, but I came across this howto today that illustrates how simple it is to pull in a Flash SWF that has an embedded font and use it within the Flex application. Embedding the bold, italic, and bold-italic sets for a font allows you to use the standard […]
There’s a lot of commercial technology out there intended to improve our quality of life (in a sense, almost all of it). A speaker @ Bay Area Maker Day mentioned a few devices she found effective for modifying her own behavior – Sleeptracker watch – wakes you at the end of the REM cycle closest […]
These are some of the coolest junkbot sculptures I’ve seen. Really clever use of computer mice parts, windshield wiper pieces, vacuum cleaner parts, and misc. plastic trash. While most of them are merely decorative, some function as desk lamps. Mouser [Make: Flickr Pool]
Peter van der Graaf did a little analysis of the URLs that are generated by the Google Analytics Javascript API and put together a very useful tutorial for building Analytics-enabled applications without the use of Javascript. When you look at the analytics javascript code you see that it combines several sets of data into an […]
Seb sent us this great interactive artwork that features a firework particle system created in Flash. Thanks Seb! Pyro(technics) to the People was a massive interactive digital fireworks display that was here in Brighton last November 5th. (Which is Guy Fawkes Night for readers outside the UK). It was squeezed kicking and screaming into the […]
