Codebox: Create Image Filters with Matrix Multiplication
This Codebox shows you how to create your own color filters using matrix multiplication.
Month: March 2011
Augmented Reality Gear Simulates Weather
Magic Vision Lab‘s weather simulator is great, but I think it needs an air conditioner slash personal sprinkler to make it more realistic. We examined a range of weather phenomenon and how they may be simulated in a mobile augmented reality system. ARWeather was developed and deployed on the Tinmith wearable computer system to enable […]
Knit TARDIS Blanket
Carrie Fritsche knit this awesome 9-foot by 6-foot TARDIS blanket as a birthday gift for her sister. After unsuccessfully looking for a TARDIS chart on the internet, I ended up making the pattern from scratch. It was knit in one large piece and has an attached fleece backing. You can find the free PDF pattern […]
How-To: Make Your Own Damn Springs
Idahoan Dean Williams used to make a living by repairing vintage mechanical cameras. If you’ve ever pulled your hair out trying to replace a small spring that hasn’t been manufactured since the factory was bombed by Göring’s Luftwaffe, you may be interested in his well-documented DIY method. Dean’s trick for annealing them inside a wad of steel wool in a toaster oven is worth a click all by itself. His entire site, in fact, will likely be of interest to those who appreciate close mechanical work.
Skill Set: The Beginning (Mechanical) Engineer’s Checklist
A while ago MAKE did a post on A Beginning Engineer’s Checklist from the PIClist site. And while I love these kind of lists, it left me – as a mechanical engineering – feeling a little left out, with all the talk of chips and Ohm’s Law and power busses (oh my!). It also reminded […]
London’s Most Unusual Taxidermic Antiques
In this video we learn about the Zoomorphic Collection exhibition in London, co-curated by Emma Hawkins and her antique-biz father J. B. Hawkins, featuring over 200 “animal objects for human use” as seen throughout history.
London’s Most Unusual Taxidermic Antiques
In this video we learn about the Zoomorphic Collection exhibition in London, co-curated by Emma Hawkins and her antique-biz father, featuring over 200 “animal objects for human use” as seen throughout history.