Maker Faire video from Oddistry
Maker Faire video from Oddistry!
Month: May 2008
//Mukana – mobile system for visually impaired
/MUKANA (the Finnish for aboard, along, in, on, part, with and within) is a piece of cutting-edge smart clothing for the visually impaired. It connects technology with textiles and thus promotes new approaches to dressing up. Users were given the main focus in the design. A group of visually impaired participated throughout the process of […]
Winners of Knit Aid by Vickie Howell
Congratulations to Meg and Sara for each winning a copy of Vickie Howell’s new book, Knit Aid: A Learn It, Fix It, Finish It Guide for Knitters on the Go from our free book giveaway yesterday. Thanks to everyone who entered and be on the look for more giveaways soon!
Maker Faire video
Curious inventor sent in their video from Maker Faire – It includes the destruction of Pleo (cute robot dinosaur) in the battle bot arena, powered recliners wheeling around (and cupcakes), cement and candy 3d printers, a dirt cheap multi-touch table, Tesla coils, lots of fire, and a bunch of musical interfaces.
DIY multi-touch on OS X
Bridger Maxwell has been blogging his progress on creating a homebrew multi-touch platform in OS X. Prior to this, there’s been a lot of activity around building multi-touch systems on Windows using the Touchlib library, but this is the first time I’ve seen a concerted effort on OS X. The basic hardware is the same […]
Maker Faire photos
atomicthumbs’ Maker Faire ’08 photo set – over 170 photos and videos.
OS X overlapping gif screensaver hack
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes: The default Mac OS X (I’m on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif with an alpha channel will appear to be “on top” of the previous image, and as […]