Harry Andreou, a Dutch programmer, got tired of looking at the bloated receiver for his MS Laser Mouse 6000, so he recased it… in a thick magazine. Now that choice might be a little… different, but you can recase it in anything you like. Get creative. Liberate your tech from its drab little cases. How […]
Reza Naima, a bioengineering student from University of California, San Diego, has uploaded a video of his thesis project to YouTube. Called the Pervasive Health Monitor, it’s a Bluetooth-enabled, TI MSP430-based microcontroller board (1.4″ x 1.8″) designed to be worn on a person to monitor various vitals. Reza explains: It’s meant to be worn 24/7, […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – The last decade has seen more than an order of magnitude drop in the price of accelerometers, devices capable of measuring physical acceleration (often in more than one direction). History suggests that whenever a useful technology makes a precipitous drop in price, unexpected applications follow, and that’s exactly what […]
A SUPER article up on CRAFT from R.Stern! She writes – I’ve compiled a brief tutorial on getting started with Arduino for the absolute beginner. I’ll cover where to learn, what to buy, and where to go for help. Why should you crafters be interested in Arduino? The Arduino platform, more-so than any other way […]
View Larger Map… You can now embed a Google map in a page, just like a video (Youtube, etc)… For all our Burner friends, have a great time next week, welcome home and here’s a map from last year! – [via] Link.
This nice folks over at WiiCade Labs have put all the necessary Javascript and Flash glue together and released a complete Flash API for the Wiimote. It supports 4 simultaneous remotes, cursor position and rotation data, and there’s even rudimentary support for the buttons on the nunchuck. WiiCade Labs Wii Remote API – Link
Huh, I missed this before – Ambient has instructions on making your own serial port interface to their glowy orbs- Link. Ambient recently released their datacasting chip set… Link.
