Layar AR goes 3D
Layar, the augmented reality app for the Android platform will be incorporating 3D capabilities into the application in November. They’ve released a tech preview this week for PICNIC ’09 in Amsterdam.
GPS
Nokia N97 GPS antenna hack
Some N97 owners find the integrated GPS doesn’t perform as well as they’d like, so they’ve taken it upon themselves to render a proper fix.
Flashback: Solar-powered bike GPS
“During the summertime, I’ll disappear for hours on long rides to nowhere and back. But I have to admit on some rides I’ve gotten so lost I have trouble finding my way home. Happily I was able to build a solar-powered GPS mapping machine, mostly from old computer parts and software I had sitting around my office.” Author Brian Nadels words in the introduction to his DIY Outdoors piece, “Solar-Powered Bike GPS,” from the pages of MAKE Volume 10, are further testament to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention.
Record-vying transatlantic robot submarine at sea
The Scarlet Knight, named for sponsoring Rutgers University’s mascot, is a cruise-missile-shaped autonomous ROV that was launched off the New Jersey coastline on April 27. If all goes according to plan, the Rutgers team will recover it off the westernmost coast of Spain right around Christmas day. That happy event would mark the first successful […]
GPS on iPod nano
Using a GPS reference board and an Atmel ATMEGA324 micro-controller engineer Bengamin Kokes has created a prototype GPS peripheral for his iPod nano.
Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition
Sixteen teams gathered today to determine whose autonomously-navigating vehicle would be the fastest around the Sparkfun headquarters in Boulder, CO. Four-wheeled rovers (typically built on RC car platforms) dominated the entries, but there were three flying UAVs, and one spheroid (Nathan, with “labrat”, pictured at right). One team had been designed a tethered model rocket […]
TouchTable map
This is a neat Touchable map via Wired Science. I wonder if Apple has a patent on the multitouch for non-portable applications. He says it was designed for kids to learn geography, but it appears that the Department of Education was not paying the bill. It’s kind of like the interactive LED table from EMS, […]
