LED mates
Here’s my eleventh hour Valentine’s Day find: These LED people blink in each other’s arms. Project schematic included – Link.
Technology
Nifty Corners: roundtangles made simple
Since the border-radius CSS parameter has been too slow in coming and rounded corners don’t seem to be going out of style any time soon, everyone web developer I know has their own personal brand of CSS background-image and DIV gymnastics for creating smooth-cornered roundtangles. Besides the extra load time that’s required to download all […]
Oscilloscope Tetris
C’mon, you knew it was only a matter of time… Scopetris – [via] Link
HOW TO – Build a flashing heart
Latest Gadget Freak from Design News, a special Vday one! – Looking for cool way of wowing that special someone on Valentines Day/birthday/whatever? Build her a flashing heart made from LEDs driven by a programmable microcontroller. Les’ gadget is simple to build and made from easily-obtainable parts. The unique thing about this design is the […]
Making electromagnetic fields visible
Hot on the heels of Sinister7, the “aether detector,” comes this other piece of spooky-tech, an electronic “scrying” device for detecting and giving form to the invisible world of electromagnetic fields. The explanation on the site is slightly torturous artspeak, but the concept is kind of interesting. Scrying [boards] – [via] Link
Particle Emitter
One of my favorite “digital artists” Robert Hodgin released a cool particle emitter, if you use Processing, the open source visual design lang) this is fun to play around with (source included) – Link. Related: Processing (programming language) – Link. Magnetosphere – Link.
Affectionate Pleo
The folks who make the Pleo (Ugobe) released a Valentine’s day behavior for the robo-dino, here’s a quick video of what it does (says it loves you, blows kisses, etc) & here’s where to download it. Related: I, Pleo – Link. [AiboHack] Babe the Pleo (YAPT) – Link. Hack the Pleo robotic dinosaur new dev […]