Philipp writes – Super-Yano is an interactive robot I build based on a modificated electronic doll. He is used to tell childrens stories and is capable to speak with text-to-speech, to hear with speech recognition and to see with face detection made with OpenCV. Super-Yano – Link.
monkeywrench76 writes: I found out a few days ago that I am being re-located to Vermont. I am here now, and I have 5 bars of service. But I now find out that AT&T is going to cancel my service anywhere between 3 and 10 months from now (when they get around to it) because […]
OpenMoko, a project to create an open, Linux-based smartphone, and FIC (the manufacturer) have started shipping a phone for developers who want to play around with OpenMoko and get a jump start on application development, the Neo 1973, which features: 2.8″ VGA TFT color display Touchscreen, usable with stylus or fingers 266MHz Samsung System on […]
Dan writes – It was a dark and stormy night…and the 3-watt generator lamp was sporadic, cutting out altogether each time a whiff of snow happened to come between its roller and the tire. “There’s got to be something better,” the mad cyclist thinks to himself as he squints to make out the faint halo […]
Mikey77 shows how to make your own conductive glue and then glue a circuit on clear plastic or any surface… Link.
Goodness, this is one of the best sites ever – a very large archive of Heathkit schematics… Link.
R. Stern writes – Inspired by the January Boston ATHF bomb scare, Rees Shad and I have created some publicly-installed solar lamps that proclaim, “I am not a bomb” in one of 12 languages. They are on view in the Kingston, NY Peace Park through October as part of their sculpture biennial. These Declarative Lamps […]
