Lamps made from slides and film
Artist and MAKE subscriber Michael Marcovici sent us the link to these amazing lamps he made out of mounted slides and reels of film. While you’re at his site, check out his other amazing work. Lights
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GPS mapping meetup in NYC – 2/21 & 2/22
There’s an OpenStreetMaps group mapping going down in Manhattan next weekend, no prior GPS-ing required – OpenStreetMap is only as good as the contributions of the people who edit it. To encourage and help people to edit, experienced mappers run Mapping Parties. The public is invited to them. Often the organiser has GPS receivers to […]
ybike 1.0: The Purple Pedals project
The Purple Pedals project consists of 20 solar-powered, geotagging, photo-taking, flickr-uploading bicycles called the ybike. It’s also a really interesting look at why a major sponsor would fund such an unusual project. There is a great list of assets at the end of the post that you might want to check out. So how does […]
GPSd under OS X
GPSd is a TCP daemon that displays location data that’s been polled from a connected GPS device. The are a lot of unix location-aware applications that use GPSd instead of communicating directly with a GPS device since it allows more than one application to access the device at a time. Seth Just sent us a […]
Manhole covers of Japan…
New mashup Web site reveals the hole story behind Japan’s manhole covers / Ittemia（イッテミア）å‰ç·š While not the oddest fetish in Japan by a long way, there are some who travel the length of Japan enticed by the prospect of a compellingly designed manhole. But while even the most ardent manhole cover buffs come up against […]
Make your own Google map marker for your house
Robert Sollis, a student at the Royal College of Art wrote an email to Google asking for a marker to be placed on Google Maps for the college’s temporary site in Kensington Gardens. All he got back from Google was an automated response, so he decided to create his own marker out of individual carpet […]
24 hours of Android
Yesterday I bought the first cellphone of my life. I had been using the junker phone that my niece lost two years ago when she was in 7th grade. It resurfaced when she finally cleaned her closet. The phone was already on the plan and they had replaced it Tmobile was going to charge to […]
