We recently acquired a MakerBot Replicator 2 here at Truth Labs. He is affectionately known as Arnold of Villanova II (Arnold for short). In the maker spirit, we rolled our own chrome extension to let us know what Arnold is up to. We used some cool tech – s3g Protocol, Raspberry Pi, Node.js and of course, Google Chrome Extensions. Here’s how we did it.
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Many moons ago I found the above image in a Tumblr feed without any luck of locating the artist. Finally, Lovely Textiles has the answer: London artist Shane Waltener! This piece, Auntie Peggy Has Departed, is a great example of his body of work, utilizing lace doilies and audio as part of an installation focused […]
Connect your microcontroller board to a computer, and run your sketch from inside the browser.
Wow, this could grow into something quite awesome. Pachube is – a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. The idea is to make it relatively simple to “plug” together interactive projects […]
You’ve read about it – now you too can follow your own pet vegetation on twitter! – The Botanicalls Twitter kit includes all the hardware you need to create a networked communication system for your plant. A moisture sensor placed into the soil will send information to simple electronic detection circuitry you solder together yourself. […]
The Gnaural Java applet allows you to playback binaural beat sequences in a web browser – arrange your own programs using the Gnaural software or simply download example programs and load them via the java interface. If you’re looking for something a little ‘flashier’ – check out this visual HTML Dreammachine. Far simpler than Gnaural, […]
