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Yesterday I bought the first cellphone of my life. I had been using the junker phone that my niece lost two years ago when she was in 7th grade. It resurfaced when she finally cleaned her closet. The phone was already on the plan and they had replaced it Tmobile was going to charge to […]
This is a really cool laser light show that can display vector images via two high-speed galvo scanners. This isn’t a simple DIY project, but there is a lot of information and source code available to help you get started. More about PIC-based laser light show [About Microcontroller]
Alberto Tadiello’s “EPROM” is an installation of music boxes that are activated by small electrical engines fed power through a transformer. The resulting sound is cacaphonous but soothing and Tadiello’s choice of layout mimics that of some PCB designs. EPROM
Andy Wilson of MS Research—a name you may recognize from yesterday’s $1 gesture recognition post—is responsible for a number of pretty unbelievable projects involving image processing and human computer interfaces. It’s the sort of stuff that really blurs the boundaries between real and digital environments. I was blown away by the video above, in which […]
Wanda’s tangible remake of the familiar Photoshop desktop would likely make an awesome them for the popular app were it skinable – as real as it gets… [via Kottke]
Simple but fun, the Major Output pixel art site let’s you create and post your own simple pixel graphic – plus browse through a big collection of other’s work. My resistor and capacitor contrubutions can be seen in the mix above. – Major Output
Jason writes on Hackszine: The “$1 Recognizer” is a simple gesture recognition algorithm created by Andy Wilson from Microsoft Research and Jacob Wobbrock and Yang Li from the University of Washington. By simple, I mean that it’s under 100 lines of code that you can quickly add to your application to give it gesture recognition […]
