This is a nice way of taking your PC back to the 1930s Art Deco designed world. Maybe it will also make us think back to the time when consumer electronics weren’t just pocket-sized gadgets that can be thrown away after a couple years of use. The Art Deco PC Mod – [via] – Link
Universal Plug and Play support is available on most modern wireless and DSL routers. Among other things, it allows client machines on the local network to remotely configure the router’s port forwarding, typically without authenticated access. Adrian Crenshaw has a nice screencast which shows how to detect UPnP capable devices on your network and how […]
Here’s an interesting project by Caleb Coppock: Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting two wires, a tone is heard. The quality of the line […]
Octopart just released this: the ability to embed a parts list right into your webpage without writing any code! Just create your list in Octopart and click “publish.” Amazing; I’m going to go back and add this to all my projects. – Link.
Fluidforms writes: The Cassius Punching Bag contains a matrix of 9×7 force sensors that measure the force exerted by a blow to the punching bag. The sensors are plugged into an Arduino board that sends the values over USB to a computer using the MIDI protocol. The computer is running a Processing sketch that receives […]
This six year old project from the MIT Media Lab gets an update for 2007. This time the inexpensive motion sensors are used to create an interactive music environment for large crowds. Inexpensive “Giveaway” Sensors for Large-Crowd Interaction – Link
Laser Cutting Parts from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo. Reprap is an open source hardware project to build 3D printers that can produce parts to make more 3D printers. A couple of nights ago, Zach and I went over to print parts and Phillip gave us this walk through. – Link
