Using Google Earth and OGLE, 3D “prints” of buildings in NYC – “The 3D buildings OGLE’d from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) […]
Fashion designers Diana Eng (recently of Bravo’s “Project Runway”) and Emily Albinski first made headlines when their Inflatable Dress made the cover of ID Magazine last fall. In their first fashion show together, Diana and Emily are pleased to also launch their new collection under their brand “Blackbox Nation.” The duo strives to push forward […]
Old Amateur Scientist article, might need to (re)make this to see if it really works – “With nothing more than a few pieces of plumbing and a source of compressed air, you can build a remarkably simple device for attaining moderately low temperatures. It separates high-energy molecules from those of low energy. George O. Smith, […]
Prank’s Instructable on how to take any R/C car and control it with your computer – Link.
Peter writes “I took an antique clock, and replaced the gearwork with a computer controlled servo, hooked it to the internet to get the weather forcast, and replaced the numbers on the face of the clock with icons, so now it tells the weather instead of the time! I used a fake antique (replica) that […]
This is sort of interesting, and useful for something (maybe) – it’s an app that uses Google Calendar and Google Desktop to turn off your PC remotely/scheduled – [via] – Link.
Bay Area Makers, MAKE will be at this event, hopefully filming! – “Experience this quintessentially San Francisco art experience, an exciting and incendiary exhibition of innovative and inspiring fire art! Ranging in nature from meditative and quietly interactive to spectacular, high-tech and utterly indefinable – these featured works of art and choreographed fire performances are […]
