These days there are plenty of tactile input options for the digital DJ that try to recreate the traditional UI. Most of these are newer devices are vestigial rotary encoders tacked onto purpose-built decks. If you’re not a DJ, but would like to recreate the tactile experience of an old phonograph with your digital music device, check out this charming iTurntable iPhone dock from maker Austin Yang.
Circuit Benders’ Ball looks amazing! Here are the performers participating: Roth Mobot – Chicago Blight Side of Life – Nashville Brain Lesion – Murfreesboro, TN Elegant Bassterds (Ben Marcantel and Derek Schartung) – Nashville Josh Gumiela, Kelli Shay Hix, Lucas McCallister – Nashville Hadals – Nashville / Montgomery, AL Joey Molinaro – New York City […]
Video of my science fair project. Is it possible to control a robotic device using only human gestures? Using the Microsoft Kinect Software Developer Kit in conjunction with the Visual Basic and Arduino programming languages, it has proven to be possible.
Each of the MAKE editors has a beat assigned for the upcoming World Maker Faire (Sept 29 & 30). Mine is robotics. I’m looking forward to seeing the Helios and talking to Tianlong and Xinyi about their bot.
Severed Hand Bop-It is an Arduin- controlled plush toy with morbidity to spare!
A group from Vanderbilt University, lead by Professor David Cliffel, claims that a protein found in spinach, called PS1, when combined with silicon found in solar panels to form a biohybrid cell, end up being 2.5 times more efficient then cells lacking the protein.
John Graham-Cumming (JGC), author of The Geek Atlas, wrote in to let us know about a fun conversion he did with a cheap optical mouse: For a small robot project I’m working on I needed a way to measure the robot’s progress across the floor. There are various possibilities, such as: use stepper motors (expensive […]
