Brian has a new OLPC, so that means he’s going to be hacking it a lot… He writes – If you go into the Record activity on the XO laptop, you’ll find that you can only record a maximum of 45 seconds of video and audio. But since almost everything in this little green wonder […]
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is the process of taking several images at different shutter speeds and combining them into a single photo that contains no washed out or underexposed areas. The result is a surreal, almost too perfectly lit photograph that contains a high level of detail throughout the image. Photoshop has a built-in […]
Here’s a fascinating project over at SparkFun where they took one of the Munny “DIY” vinyl toys and embedded a Logomatic datalogger (with its LPC2138 MCU), a Nokia screen clone, and an accelerometer inside. The idea is to use the device as a sort of 21st century Magic 8-Ball, dubbed the Sinister 7. Pete, the […]
If you go into the Record activity on the XO laptop, you’ll find that you can only record a maximum of 45 seconds of video and audio. But since almost everything in this little green wonder is written in Python, it’s very easy to fix this. Open up the Terminal activity, cd to /usr/share/activities/Record.activity, and […]
MAKE: Blog pal, and author of Robodance, Robert Oschler, is in the process of updating this free Robosapien control program so that it can also work with the new Tomy i-Sobot, using the IR connection on the robot and the Nintendo Wii remote controller (Wiimote). This video offers a sneak peak of Robodance 4’s capabilities. […]
Designed for winter, this cell phone’s large buttons allow its user to use them outside while wearing thick gloves. The concept brings in to question what other specific types of contexts phones could be developed for or how they could be made to easily adapt to their environments and specific user scenarios in general. [via], […]
Here’s how to repurpose an old CD-ROM drive and turn them into last-minute flashing Christmas lights – Link & more.
