Tim writes – Well, after seeing the many houses dancing to Trans-Siberian Music, I decided it was time to do the same to my house. The problem is that I currently live in Hong Kong and in a 52 story building. Instead I wired up my living. At first the project was going to simply […]
Pink Tentacle brings you this year’s robot of the year for 2007 – Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced the winners of the 2007 Robot Award. The top honor of “Robot of the Year†goes to Fanuc’s super-fast two-armed industrial robot system equipped with visual tracking functions, which is optimized for […]
Janet Hansen’s AWESOME fake fur LED jacket! – Here’s a recent addition to our collection of faux fur coats lighted with LEDs. This mid-thigh length unisex coat is made with a black and white polka dot pattern, and we’ve inserted a color-changing RGB LED into the center of each of the spots (over 400 of […]
Erica Sadun is at it again with another useful iPhone hack. By updating the Preferences.app’s Settings-iPhone.plist file with a tweaked version, you can enable a number of hidden options right within the Settings screen. Prior to this, you could tweak these parameters with various property list edits, but this makes it easy to customize your […]
Frank writes – I connected a Wii Nunchuck controller to an Arduino, which takes the data from the controller’s I2C data bus, decodes it, and send the data to the robot with a radio transmitter. Charlie uses a radio receiver to get the data, and it will control the drive servo system and the pan […]
Some students at Georgia Tech built this sweet print-bot, built on a iRobot iCreate. Love the way the talc “ink” interacts with the pile of the carpet to look like stitchery. Go GT! The Print-Bot – [via] Link
According to ticket #5376, you can’t copy and paste text between Terminal.activity and other applications. This became a problem for me this evening when I tried to copy a script from a web page into a file on the XO laptop. Fortunately, pygtk gives you access to the clipboard, and it’s really easy to create […]
