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DIY Magic Mirror kits

DIY Magic Mirror kits

Al Linke’s DIY Magic Mirror first appeared on our radar back in 2008, when Al posted a classic Instructable describing the project, which went on to win the Tech Grand Prize in our 2008 DIY Halloween Contest. Al’s Magic Mirror features a Snow-White style floating, talking face in a gilt-framed mirror with an amazingly wide variety number of integrated and integratable functions–breathalyzer, weather forecast, stock tracking, X-10 lighting control, doorbell input with camera feed, Picasa-based slideshow, various themed personalities, etc., etc. He’s selling them, now and gets $219 for the kit.

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Flex, an interactive wall

Flex, an interactive wall

Matthew from Tampa, FL, wrote in to share this interactive wall project. Three architecture grad students at the University of South Florida created an interactive wall they call flex. The wall reacts with light and motion as people walk by it creating a unique experience. The wall is powered by 3 Arduinos, 5 Maxbotix LV-EZ3 […]

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Relief: 3D interactive maps

Relief: 3D interactive maps

Called a “scalable actuated shape display”, this project by Daniel Leithinger, Adam Kumpf, and Hiroshi Ishii of MIT’s Tangible Media Group seems especially suited for displaying terrain. Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models […]

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NotPocketSimon project

Eric Gradman, the hacker who gave us the awesome TRS-80 bluetooth hack, sent us a link to his NotPocketSimon project. This was a quick and dirty collaborative version of the Milton Bradley Simon game from the ’80s that he put together in just 8 hours. He took it to the most recent Mindshare event. …the […]

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Simon Stabs

Simon Stabs

A reinvisioning of a classic that adds a touch of (nearly) danger – “Simon Stabs…” is an interactive game that provides ‘harmless’ platform differs from a typical knife skill game with a real knife. It consists of two gaming platforms with wooden knives as ‘switch’ to press six ‘buttons’ in the space between each finger. […]

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Reactogon arpeggiator table

Ubi de feo points out this interesting musical interface – the reactogon . . . er, “reacTogon” to be specific. Arpeggio notes are determined through the relationship of individual tiles placed across the surface, each tiles symbol determining note behavior. The device seems to be a variation on the ReacTable but structured in a tile […]

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