Interesting write up from Mark Valentine on his “steam battery” he writes – A few months ago, Forrest M. Mims III, the editor of The Citizen Scientist, received an inquiry from an upper-level physics student that led to a brief (or perhaps not so brief) account of how I discovered the “Steam Battery.” Essentially, this […]
It seems Rock Band’s plastic strum bar wasn’t good enough for this player. He used some professional quality wood fittings to mount an actual guitar string which triggers a spring-switch mechanism. Notice the lovely wood inlay inhabiting the former home of the strum bar. Looks quite “high end”! Related: Fixing a Rock Band strat – […]
Here is a step-by-step tutorial for converting a Street Fighter arcade-style joystick controller to work with your Xbox360. Although they started with a Street Fighter joystick, which you most likely don’t have, the pictures of the Xbox controller ripped apart are all labeled. This should definitely help you get a jump start on your own […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have released “Peggy” this is a great open source hardware project for LED art makers! – With all the cool things that you can do with LEDs today, there is still one thing that’s lacking: simplicity. If you want to run a bunch of LEDs at a time, you usually end […]
I was digging around for an open source statistics package today and came across R, a GPLed statistics and and data analysis suite. Sweet! R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often […]
Jared Tarbell is an artist and programmer who does gorgeous computational art, coded in the Processing language. And not only are the finished pieces amazing (and available for purchase), but you can also “run” the art, see it grown in a pop-up applet. Generative Artifacts – Computation Gallery [Thanks, Patti!] – Link
