This is a neat little project to make over the weekend. It’s a rechargeable LED that you can wear. The whole concept is that an LED can have it’s legs pushed through a piece of clothing and into the battery packs connector. With one of the leads bent over to keep it attached to the […]
These orbs were made for the Burning Man festival. Check out the website for more information, and to find out why there was a rover in the video. The SWARM of autonomous beings by their very nature will have emergent and complex behavior. They will flock, flirt, dance and interact, and their actions will surprise […]
In other antique Apple news, Ben Hack strikes again, with an impeccable custom-built IIgs laptop. Apple IIgs Original Hardware Laptop Related: Interview with Ben Heck – Console Hacker Extraordinaire Ben Heck goes inside the 360 Elite
Video of the the making of a 22ft robot made from the styrofoam packing material for electronics by Michael A. Salter via NOTCOT.
Impossibly geeky bugger streams Second Life through an Apple IIc. [Sci-fi trivia note: Legend has it that an ad on a bus stop for the Apple IIc was one of William Gibson’s inspirations for the “cyberdecks” in his Sprawl novels. So it’s rather fitting to see a virtual world through its lens, however hopelessly pixelated.] […]
InexorableTash wrote an Apple II program in assembly that receives streaming video from a Windows PC over a 115kbps serial connection. Why? So his nautilus avatar could wander about in Second Life on hardware: For another fun example of new software on the Apple II, check out this video of a Wolfenstein-like game called “Escape […]
John Ryan on the Arduino forums says: Here’s 2 ATMega168’s sharing one 16mHz resonator, one reset switch, two 10k resistors, one 220ohm resistor, and two LED pilots. I used a mini USB adapter and uploaded the LED blink test to both chips, and as Paul [Badger] suspected, they are perfectly synchronized – I’ve tested numerous […]
