MAKE friend and haunting sonstress BELL is at it again. Marc used her music in his Gakken Mechamo Crab build (2008), and now she’s making music videos with hacked Kinects! MAKE favorite Zach Lieberman co-created the visuals for Chase No Face using the Kinect, a laptop, and LED projector.
Golan Levin at fffff.at writes:Yep, it’s a QR code stencil generator! We present QR_STENCILER, a free, fully-automated utility which converts QR codes into vector-based stencil patterns suitable for laser-cutting.
I attended the NYC Hack and Tell Meetup last night and saw Lee Felarca give demonstrations of his “work in progress” Kinect hacks. Using openFrameworks, and written in C++, Lee said he was mostly just interested in learning C++ – some filters he wrote include explosions (above), alpha trails, particle emitter, and strobe.
By way of our pals at LaughingSquid comes this amazing window snap of this morning’s Atlantis launch. So great! Our very own Rachel Hobson was there with the press and will be filing a report later.
What a clever gimmick! SVK is written by Transmetropolitan author Warren Ellis, illustrated by Matt Brooker, and published in “collaboration” with London-based design studio BERG (whatever that means). £10 plus shipping gets you the book and a small UV-LED flashlight for viewing the thought bubbles. [via adafruit]
Randy Sarafan shows you how to mod your digicam to take infrared pics, then solder up a big ol’ infrared LED light that mounts to your cameras tripod threading. Randy writes, “this special camera captures even the most difficult shots in low-to-no light photographic brilliance.”
MAKE subscriber Uros wrote to us to share the projects by some of the students in ENSCI, a product design school in Paris, France. I especially liked the design of the 3D scanner demonstrated in the video above. The scanner uses a laser pointer moving along a ring-shaped track around an object to find a […]
