David shows you how to capture Peeps exploding… – It’s 3 a.m. and a phone rings in the White House… Or actually, it was about 3 p.m. and a phone rang in my pocket. By chance the phone happened to be mine and on the other end of it was 3ric asking if I’d be […]
Davis Remmel writes: Code 39 is easy to recreate because it only uses two types of lines: wide and narrow. Also, each code has a beginning sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black), and an ending sequence (thin black, wide white, thin black, thin white, wide black, thin white, wide black, thin white, thin black.) […]
This project, which began as a class project for UC Berkeley students, uses an ordinary cell phone camera as a medical microscope meant for use in remote or undeveloped countries to diagnose illnesses. The idea is to use the camera with the microscopic lens attachment to take pictures and transmit them over the network for […]
Rob has an amazing gallery of Ziplock seals using the Eyeclops magnifying camera. Related: Eyeclops: Super magnifying camera.
Planetarium makers do awesome work, even building “home-domes” for exhibition – The Home Planetarium Association welcomes all those who build small planetariums for home, school, museum, or other personal use. A quarterly newsletter is produced; This includes collecting toy planetaria, operating older or small professional units, or just fondly remembering childhood trips to planetariums around […]
From the artists’ statement of purpose: The idea of using LED fixtures with artwork has been explored in a variety of settings, but is still a fairly new area of art exploration. In the recent past, the improved availability of RGB (red, green, and blue) LED light fixtures has made creating LED based artwork much […]
Ever wondered how designers make those polished 3D PCB renderings? Flickr user Rob sheds some light on the issue with the comparison seen above – Comparison of a virtual board and a real board, designed in Eagle and rendered using the amazing Eagle3D by Matthias Weißer, which creates files for POV-Ray. It’s like seeing the […]
