Digital paint roller
It’s called txtBOMBER, by Felix Vorreiter. Battery powered, with seven rollers and an Arduino for a brain. [via Dude Craft]
Year: 2010
Nexus One Wii Remote mod
Check out this Nexus One Wii Remote mod from YouTuber baza210.
Teaching kids electronics using wooden blocks
My friend Paul Marlier has a pretty fun gig at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. His job as a workshop specialist is to come up with new ways to teach science to children (and their parents!).
Making gestural music with the iPhone
My friend, experimental musician, media artist, and director of the Culture Lab at Newscastle University, Atau Tanaka, has tweaked up some iPhones to transform them into gestural musical devices. Here he performs with Adam Parkinson: In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone. The accelerometers which typically serve […]
How-To: Extract DNA
The page below, from the Universe of Utah’s Genetics Science Learning Center, shows you how easy it is to extract DNA strands from any living thing (but stay away from living things that might be pissed at you for liquefying a half a cup of them in a blender). The rest of the Learn.Genetics site […]
Make it a Maker Weekend
To quote Golden Girl Sophia, “Picture it: Detroit 2010.” It’s sounding like lots of folks are gearing up to head to the greater Detroit area for Maker Faire and I couldn’t be prouder. As I found out when I went to Maker Faire in San Mateo, this isn’t a one-hour activity. You’ll most likely spend […]
$2 bluetooth serial with Propeller USB Host
When we last covered Micah Dowty’s efforts in creating a software USB host for the Propeller, he had just gotten it working well enough to talk to a $2 Bluetooth dongle.