Andy Wilson of MS Research—a name you may recognize from yesterday’s $1 gesture recognition post—is responsible for a number of pretty unbelievable projects involving image processing and human computer interfaces. It’s the sort of stuff that really blurs the boundaries between real and digital environments. I was blown away by the video above, in which […]
You can communicate from Flash to an Arduino device by using a proxy. The proxy runs on a machine which is connected directly to the Arduino with a serial connection. Your AS3 code talks to the proxy over a TCP socket, and the proxy talks to the Arduino over the serial connection. This whole setup […]
Great news from Adam Simon via twitter: iPhone NDA officially dead, swanky new developer forums are available in beta: https://devforums.apple.com via Daring Fireball, here’s a writeup on the details of the NDA: Are the iPhone APIs public yet?
Thomas Robinson was experimenting with a way to recover censored text from documents that use the Photoshop “mosaic” filter to redact text. One way to brute force a solution to a redacted message is to run the mosaic filter with a number of input letters, looking for visual matches that progressively uncover the censored text. […]
Fitting in nicely with the discussion on pulling financial data into Google Spreadsheets, the OUseful blog recently demonstrated another Spreadsheet data import function, importHTML(), which allows you to easily link an external HTML table to your workbook. The Google spreadsheet function =importHTML(“”,”table”,N) will scrape a table from an HMTL web page into a Google spreadsheet. […]
Video: Touchless Microsoft has released what’s more or less a stripped-down version of their multitouch Microsoft Surface; in face, there’s no surface included at all. Anyone with a webcam (and Windows) can try it out. From Geek.com: Although many developers may be waiting for the release of the Surface SDK expected later this month, Microsoft […]
This is amazing; it’s an article from Programmable Logic DesignLine that describes how you can repair an old gaming system by using programmable logic (in the form of a Xilinx CPLD) to emulate a hard-to-replacean obsolete (actually 35 cents each as Kyoorius points out in the comments, but assumed obsolete “for the sake of this […]
