Imaging

“See Wi-fi” with this amazing camera

There are some updates, new images and videos on the “Wifi-Camera Obscura” (see our previous post here). The Wifi Camera is a camera that takes “pictures” of spaces illuminated by wifi in much the same way that a traditional camera takes pictures of spaces illuminated by visible light. The camera reveals the electromagnetic space of […]

SkateboardPOV

SkateboardPOV

Marcus Nowotny (Hamburg, Germany) created an awesome skateboard POV using a MiniPOV attached to the underside of his board: The schematic is drastically reduced to the original version, the LEDs have been reduced to white 0603 LEDs and laid out in a very small PCB, small enough to not touch the ground or come anywhere […]

How-To: Drill into a ceiling without getting plaster in your face

How-To: Drill into a ceiling without getting plaster in your face

Instructables has a good thing going with their regular “theme” contests. They just finished up with paracord; now they’re starting in on coffee cups. Reminds me of the “MacGyver Challenge” that ReadyMade magazine used to run back before their facelift. Shown above is user bertus52x11’s simple hack for catching the plaster that would otherwise fall everywhere when you drill into the ceiling.

openFrameworks workshop tomorrow in NYC

openFrameworks workshop tomorrow in NYC

You’ve seen tons of cool openFrameworks projects here on MAKE over the years. If you haven’t heard about this open source creative coding toolkit, you should. If you’re in NYC this weekend, there’s going to be a workshop on using openFrameworks at Parsons tomorrow: This DT Dorkshop will be lead by Parsons MFA Design + […]