Have you ever wanted your very own Street View camera to capture the places not yet covered by Google Maps? With this DIY Street View Kit from German designer Jan Martin, you can now map your favorite walking trail, camp site, or remote location. The kit can be mounted on a car or worn as a backpack and comes with a custom image processing server and player software.
It’s the little details I really like, here; especially the “socket header” on the back edge made by installing a regular 1×8 black brick in an unusual studs-down position.
Here’s another interesting physical computing platform; the PIC-based Create USB Interface. The original design was made by Dan Overholt as a bridge between computer and world for musical and artistic applications. Seeed Studio has an updated design called the CUI32Stem, which has been tweaked to work well with the thirty-something sensors and actuators in their […]
In this off-the-cuff video, MIT prof and MAKE pal Gregory Charvat shoots Nerf darts into the beam of an old X-band Doppler radar gun with its output hacked into a linear power supply, a preamp, and finally into Greg’s living room stereo system. The signal sounds like a cartoon sound effect!
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Todd Harrison of Mesa, AZ, wrote in with his teardown and restoration of a ’80s-era Apple. The very first computer I ever used was an Apple II Plus in high school and I couldn’t get enough time on this machine. I was more than fascinated by computers I was obsessed. Every minute learning on the […]
Complete with nerdtastic puns, both homonymic and typographical. You may have already guessed that Becky Stern would be the culprit. The pattern and detailed instructions are available for free.
To honor Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th year on the throne, James Adam created Print Britannia, which outputs Union Jack bunting on thermal paper!
