Panning time lapse using a kitchen timer
Flickr user rtadlock made this stylish panning timelapse camera using an old kitchen timer, and it came out beautifully!
Remake
Retro Thing’s hackable USB joystick
Touchscreen and computer vision interfaces are slowly starting to replace the traditional game controllers in next generation systems. Today’s Wiimote will be tomorrow’s joystick. Speaking of joysticks, the guys over at Retro Thing are producing some pretty cool classic Atari-style joysticks using clear plastic and a USB interface.
Physical color picker
Here’s a neat concept idea by Jinsun Park, a physical Color Picker.
A virtual dog for a real cat
Hans Ruber designed the virtual dog Miku for an installation, then set it up for his cat to play with.
Remake: MacBook hidden in an actual book
This thing is called BookBook and it’s available from TwelveSouth for $80. Would be an easy remake, though, if you could find an appropriately-sized book. [via Geekologie]
Coffee bean cooler
The coffee connoisseurs in the crowd are probably familiar with the popcorn popper method of roasting your own beans. But anyone who’s tried it has probably found the hot-potato method of transferring the roasted beans back and forth between two colanders, to arrest the roasting process, a little… inelegant. On Evil Mad Scientist, Windell shows […]
Shelter 2.0: Distributed manufacturing for emergencies
Bill writes in to tell about Shelter 2.0, a fabbed structure system that aims to leverage distributed manufacturing and shipping to provide durable emergency structures to situations of need.
The Shelter 2.0 was designed by Robert Bridges as a CNC-cut emergency shelter in the Guggenheim/Sketchup contest in 2009. The idea was that it would be partway between a tent and a real house and could be dis-assembled and re-assembled using some interesting CNC-cut joinery to make it easy.
