Month: March 2010

Email-counting T-shirt

Chris and Madeleine Ball wrote in to share their email-counting t-shirt. Using some parts that they got from the Sparkfun Free Day, they added an LED display to the front of the shirt, that displays a count of the user’s unread email. An Android phone continuously checks the user’s inbox for new messages, then relays […]

Getting to know “foamies”

One of the things we talk about in the new issue of MAKE, in my “Remote Control State of the Art” piece, is foamies, R/C planes made out of foam building material, often carved from blueboard insulation foam. They have getting started info, videos of foamies in action, project articles, and they even sell plans […]

Floppy disk ceramic tiles

Floppy disk ceramic tiles

Found these ceramic tiles in the shape of floppy disks at the site of Australian design firm ENESS, who made a pretty cool game of augmented-reality Pong played on a whiteboard awhile back, and, I believe, are also responsible for making these. There’s no info about how it was done, however, and the post is titled “5 1/4 inch,” in spite of the fact that these are clearly 3 1/2 inch floppies. Cool idea, though. Anyone have more info?

Pictures from Arduino art show in NYC

Pictures from Arduino art show in NYC

Saturday was Alicia Gibb’s Arduino-themed art show at NYC Resistor (hackerspace in Brooklyn). It was packed, beepy, twitchy, blinky, and super fun! I had a piece in the show and took a few photos. There’s also a peek at photos to come over on the NYC Resistor site. Here’s Alicia looking super safe during setup, […]