BouncyIrises, a Physical/Digital Interaction Game
First year ITP student Xuedi (“Zoodie”) Chen presented this awesome physical/virtual game installation as part of ITP’s Winter Show.
Technology
TFTweet – Displaying Tweets on an Arduino Shield with the Raspberry Pi
Drew Fustini recently got his hands on an AlaMode and used it display tweets from his Raspberry Pi to an 2.8″ TFT LCD Touchscreen Shield. The AlaMode and shield are connected to the Raspberry Pi which runs the Arduino IDE and a bit of Python code to make it all happen.
A Very Robotic Christmas
Autonomous Systems Lab in Zurich put together this fun video featuring their ballbot Rezero and their reindeerbot StarlETH. [via The NXT Step]
LED Atmospheric Analyzer Kit Now Available In The Maker Shed
The Maker Shed LED Atmospheric Analyzer Kit is now available in the Maker Shed. Use it to create a photometer, a device that measures how much blue, green, and red light are penetrating the atmosphere.
Showtime Prep at Survival Research Laboratories
Famed machine artists Survival Research Laboratories are staging a show this weekend in Los Angeles. Pictures of the Hovercraft, Mr. Satan on the Dule Mules, the Running Machine, and other SRL machines as they are being worked on and prepped for transport.
Limor Fried Named Entrepreneur of the Year
Entrepreneur magazine has named Adafruit‘s founder and lead engineer, Limor “Ladyada” Fried, as the Entrepreneur of 2012. A tireless proponent of the open source movement, Limor started Adafruit in her dorm room at MIT in 2005. Today, Adafruit is housed in a 12,000-square-foot industrial space in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, sells 800 different […]
Hexapod Meets Hexacopter
I haven’t started my list of New Year resolutions yet, but I’m pretty sure learning to fly a drone quadcopter is going to make the top 10. But after seeing Mad Lab Industries’ exceptionally cool hexapod hexacopter maybe it makes more sense to walk before I fly. Says Mad Labs: So, we have been tossing […]