Dave over @ PopSci shows you how to build an ambient LED project using an Arduino… Ambient technology is the current rage for presenting information in a unobtrusive and, sometimes, sublime manner. Information suited for an ambient format ranges from complex number-laden data streams to simple one- or two-digit numbers. The idea here is that […]
David shows you how to capture Peeps exploding… – It’s 3 a.m. and a phone rings in the White House… Or actually, it was about 3 p.m. and a phone rang in my pocket. By chance the phone happened to be mine and on the other end of it was 3ric asking if I’d be […]
The Ubuntu Unleashed blog has a simple guide for getting Safari to run in Ubuntu. You basically install the Windows version of Safari under WINE, copy over a few core Windows fonts to your WINE install and it just works. You can even install the flash plugin. I’m not positive that I wouldn’t feel a […]
These Puma running shoes from the 1980s had a built in pedometer that interfaced with an Apple II’s “game port” to download the distance and time traveled for later analysis. More details of their construction at the link below. Puma RS Computer Tennis Shoes
Ben made another really cool guitar effects pedal. This time he used a cheap voice recorder and an Arduino to sample and continuously loop a recording. You can read all about it on his website. He even posted all the code so you can make one yourself. DIY Loop effects pedal Related: Ben made this […]
John sent in his build of a temperature probe for the OLPC. He purchased an OLPC through the Give 1 & Get 1 program, and was interested in the measure functions of the PC. I was too, when I had a chance to check one out a few months back. The measure activity uses the […]
Wow, within minutes of the Cylon hat post “Coffeeeggsbacon” posted his LED hat, nicely done!
