Check out this capacitive touch brush stylus from Instructables user Margarita Benites. Using an old paint brush and some conductive thread, Benites recreates a traditional paint brush stylus that works with modern capacitive touch screen devices such as tablets and handsets for a fraction of the cost of a commercial version.
A group from the Technical University of Denmark cobbled together a portable EEG using an Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset, a wireless dongle, and a Nokia N900 smartphone. Using custom software, the unit will render a real-time OpenGL representation of live data from the headset.
We are thrilled to announce the release of the World Maker Faire event app, put together by Xomo Digital and some of O’Reilly’s finest. The app is sponsored by HP’s Hacking Autism Initiative. As Maker Faires get bigger, with more to see and do, and more makers to connect with, a good organizing tool is […]
Our friends over at iFixit recently tore apart a Motorola Droid Bionic to check out what’s inside. Surprisingly, the new 4.3″ handset was a breeze to strip down, with only eleven screws to get down to the board.
Berkeley area maker, Milo, is really into Japanese joinery techniques and since his phone doesn’t have a fancy kickstand, he decided to make a smartphone stand using some scrap wood and his Japanese woodworking tools. If you’re looking for an easy to accomplish project, you can follow along with Milo in his step-by-step how-to.
Thom Nichols is building a mobile QR Code scavenger hunt for the RI Mini Maker Faire based on QuiRk: A Cross-Platform QR Scavenger Hunt Game, which he launched at this year’s Wooly Fair.
We’ll be hiding QR Codes all over the RI Mini Maker Faire. If you find them all, you’ll be entered in a (free) drawing to win one of three awesome prizes, which we’ll be announcing soon.
If you dropped $99 on a discounted HP TouchPad hoping to run the latest CyanogenMod, you’ll have to wait a little longer. In the meantime you can occupy yourself with this proof-of-concept video showing Android running on the device. The team says they’re still working on the touchscreen driver and have resorted to a “blatant publicity stunt” in order to get their hands on more TouchPads for testing.
