The XBee & XBee Adapter Kit bundle from the Maker Shed is designed to make adding wireless point-to-point or mesh networking to your next project a lot easier. The kit includes an XBee, the XBee adapter PCB, and all components necessary to build the adapter. This kit is really easy to build, even if you’ve […]
Welsh artist Nathan Wyburn paints portaits on toast with jam and Marmite.
Dorkbot, the informal monthly presentation series for “people doing strange things with electricity,” will celebrate their 10-year anniversary tonight in NYC! If you’re in the area, you should swing by — Dorkbots are a ton of fun, and this is the one that started them all! Tonight’s event will include the standard three presentations, as […]
Well, that’s one way you can display and serve your meats at a holiday party. Maybe pair it with some knit Star Trek pot holders and BOOM! Instant hostess gift! [via Geek Mom]
This Codebox explores how to use a web server to collect sensor data from a Processing sketch. As an example, we’ll use OpenCV to periodically detect and report number of faces that appear in your webcam’s field of view. You might use something like this at a conference or art show to see how many people are interested in a particular session or exhibit. Using this data feed, you might then create a mobile app that would show you where the most people are at a conference at any given time.
Jennifer Muskopf represents animal interactions in plush. I like the above lion eating an elephant and the (shiny) baby naked mole rats. [via inspire me now]
This video by YouTube user UncleJtotheS shows a “third year Mechatronics project at the University of Ottawa” that automatically pours a glass of beer — though not a pint, which is either 16 or 19.2 ounces depending on which side of the border you are. But I quibble, when it comes to automatically pouring beer […]
