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Josh Sulkin, of FlyOnTime.us, has created this interesting little Twitter crowdsourcing experiment: I’d like to announce some major changes to the Apps For America 2 entry FlyOnTime.us, as well as ask for your help in a “crowdsourcing” experiment I’m conducting. First the experiment…I originally wanted to incorporate the data from the TSA’s airport security line […]
John Rausch’s Puzzle World website showcases some incredible and ingenious objects from Rausch’s own puzzle collection, and from those of others. The site is divided into categories like interlocking solid puzzles, impossible object puzzles, sequential movement puzzles, etc. It’s a nearly inescapable click-trap. Shown here are two of my favorites, so far. Above is Stewart […]
Back in March of 2008 we mentioned a class project from a group of UC Berkeley students working to develop a microscope extension for cameraphones. Led by Daniel Fletcher, the team has since updated their prototype, which is capable of acquiring objects at 1.2 micrometers across.
@brady over at radar.oreilly.com has an excellent summary of what some folks are already doing to integrate Apple’s new Find My iPhone service into their location aware applications.
Maker Sebastian Dwornik needed a way to mount a mobile device to his mountain bike in order to field test some software he’d written. His solution, though crude, turned out to be quite effective.
MAKE subscriber Chris Brent sent us word of this release of the source code for the Apollo 11 command module and lunar lander software, which can be run on yaAGC (an open source emulator of the Apollo Guidance Computer). From the Google Code Blog: On this day 40 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin […]
Silke Hilsing created an imaginative interface to talk between the digital and analog world. Virtual gravity is an interface between digital and analog world. With the aid of analog carriers, virtual terms can be taken up and transported from a loading screen to an analog scale. The importance and popularity of these terms (data base: […]
