Auto Smiley inserts smileys when you smile
Theo Watson cooked up a chunk of code with OpenFrameworks that types a smiley face into your text chat, email, etc. when it recognizes that you’ve smiled. =] Auto Smiley
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Weekend Project: Evil Mouse Prank
Take control of your co-worker’s cursor and drive ’em nuts. Thanks go to John Edgar Park for the original article in MAKE Volume 15. To download The Evil Mouse Prank video video click here and subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Evil Mouse Prank article in MAKE Volume 15 and you can see that […]
Look, it’s Jersey from space!
Notice tarp taped to the ground, stocking feet, and cotton gloves, all used to keep the fragile balloon intact. Bright tape on the camera-carrying cooler helped them recover the balloon rig. To the left can (barely) be seen cellphone and handwarmers, to the right (under the bungies) the camera and handwarmers. The warmers are used […]
Control your DSLR with a Nintendo DS
Open Camera Control is a project from HDRLabs to build a custom cable to interface your DSLR with a Nintendo DS.
Gadget Freak Case #160: Chase the Stars with a Camera
Latest Gadget Freak – Case #160: Chase the Stars with a Camera @ Design News… Who hasn’t looked at the night sky and asked in awe, “How can I capture that?” A motor-driven star tracker won’t let you grab a star, but it will let a camera track the movement of the stars so you […]
Awesome ultra-low-tech DIY movie making method
This minute-long short by Mindfruit Studios is called “Memoirs of a Scanner,” and was made using only a scanner and software to stitch the still images together into a movie. It has characters, special effects, and a coherent plot that tells the story of an episode in the life of a business office, from the copier’s perspective. [via Neatorama]
Lost Knowledge: Magic Lanterns
A look at the 17th century precursor to the slide, and then movie, projector, magic lanterns.
