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Kinecticate: Kinect-powered Email

Kinecticate: Kinect-powered Email

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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Chad Ruble wrote to me to share how he used a Kinect and the SimpleOpenNI library for Processing to help his mom send email messages.

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It’s email time – Make an “email clock”…. the more kb you get the more the clock ticks!

It’s email time – Make an “email clock”…. the more kb you get the more the clock ticks!

By Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone

current: @adafruit - previous: MAKE, popular science, hackaday, engadget, fallon, braincraft ... howtoons, 2600...

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IT’S EMAIL TIME – Innocent-looking “clock” monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox – by Tom Igoe. I have a lot of anxiety about email. Every kilobyte in my Inbox destroys another minute of my life, but I can’t stop checking it. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would worry […]

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HOW TO – Make a physical email notifier

HOW TO – Make a physical email notifier

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. His free weekly-ish maker tips newsletter can be found at garstipsandtools.com.

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A glowing plastic cube that lights up when you have mail in your Gmail inbox, via a Boarduino MCU: The following guide is deliberately fairly high-level, because the exact details will vary depending on your operating system and particular hardware setup. I did this with my Mac, but hopefully there’ll be enough information here for […]

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