Dan Overholt is making snazzy microcontroller devices over at UC Santa Barbara. Using his C.R.E.A.T.E USB interface, he’s made a musical interface that uses accelerometers to make a ping-pong ball on a spring make experimental music. Using his friendly little circuit board and a bluetooth transmitter, Dan has also put together a geodesic ball that […]
Wan has a review of this little printer that prints as you move it over things, it wants to be hacked, not sure if it prints on people – “Xyron Design Runner lets you print ANYWHERE…check out the FirstLook, FirstUse, and the video. The only thing we need is for them to upgrade the reader […]
Gallery of Soviet-era gadgets and devices, the four transistor transistor radio kit is really nice – [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rautiocination writes – “Artpainter stands for adaptive resonance theory painter, also known as the painting machine. This device takes user input through a website and local tablet pc’s, which it then “learns” through system of neural networks. The machine then improvizes using what it has learnt.” – Link.
Nemo Gould makes incredible kinetic, robot sculptures made from recycled materials – check out the gallery and the videos – Link.
21st Century Decluttering sent in a ClosetMaid hack/mod – “Sometimes you just need to convert your clutter. I had several long pieces of ClosetMaid shelving the garage. They are easily found at garage sales when people remodel. Even new, these pieces are surprisingly inexpensive, as I believe that ClosetMaid is doing a ‘razor’ and ‘razor […]
Mercury News on a new homebrew cell phone club – “A small band of tinkerers with that old Silicon Valley can-do spirit say they are determined to build a better cell phone, whether wireless companies like it or not….This time around, the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club’s beef is that today’s cell phones are not as […]
