Dan Reetz Talk at Personal Archiving 2011
Innovator and Imagineer Dan Reetz talks book scanning, hardware hacking, camera control, and cultural impact at Personal Digital Archive 2011, hosted by The Internet Archive in San Francisco.
Bicycles
Prospero, a Robotic Farmer
Dave wrote in with his intriguing agriculture robot. Are a swarm of robots like this the future of farming? Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory and is the first of four steps. It is meant to be deployed as a group […]
Meet the DIY iPod Case Sony Killed: The RetroPod…
A follow up to “Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators” which is now making the rounds around the web and getting some great comments/discussions on the article (join in here). I outlined seven examples of Sony punishing makers, hackers, and innovators, but saved the best one for its own post. Meet the 8th wonder […]
Bike-Mounted Rainbow Graffiti System
[via The Donut Project]
Making Interactive Displays Smarter
In this video, Steven Bathiche from Microsoft Applied Sciences shows off some imaging and human interface technologies that are currently under development at Microsoft. They’re working on something called an optical wedge, which they’re using to add a Z dimension to touch screens and deliver 3D images to your eyes without the need for glasses. […]
Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators
Two weeks ago I proclaimed a winner in the microcontroller dev board arena with “Why the Arduino Won, and Why It’s Here to Stay.” There’s still lots of great debate going on, and conversations that still haven’t ended. Is my prediction right? We’ll see what happens in the upcoming months and years. This week I’m […]
Bike With Pedal-Powered EL Wire
This summer I realized that you don’t need a driver to run your el wire if you’re putting it on a bike. I hooked a stepper motor up to a transformer from an old cell phone charger and it ramped up the voltage enough to light up my bike in real-time. It even fades on […]