Paper Cradle for CLIE
If you have an old Sony CLIE laying around, here’s how to make a cradle- out of paper. The site includes the how to, PDF, images and more. It’s in Japanese, but here’s the translated page that sorta makes sense. Link.
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Home Built Laser Projector
There are two categories of the laser effect. One is Beam Effects show the laser beam that progressing in the air to the audience, the other is Screen Effects show the laser graphics on the screen that drawn in moving a laser spot on the screen. The first one is used better than second. The beam effect is very exciting, so that many Laser Light Shows are also being given. The laser machines working in the laser light show are called Laser Projector. Here’s how to make one… Link.
Internet interfaces in the physical world
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I really like the scroll bars. Joe McKay’s Progress Bar is moved by a stepper motor which is connected to the computer. The computer screen displays a message which changes as the bar gets closer to completion. Press Enter to Exit has two mesh screens inside a box, one that’s shaking and one that’s not. This shaking makes the letters shimmer with a moire brilliance that mimics a computer screen. The text comes from the artists’s local deli’s ATM machine. See also the Scrollbars by Jan Robert Leegte. The installation isolates elements of the Windows interface, which are in turn projected onto various structures; previously internet-based, the scrollbars moved to physical installations through a desire to develop a more meditative relationship between the audience and the work. Link.
Add the MAKE audio show to iTunes 4.9
Click here or on the graphics to add the MAKE Magazine audio show to iTunes 4.9. Once added you should get our shows delivered directly to iTunes each week. If the one-click doesn’t work (it seems like it’s not working on all systems) just go to the podcast section in iTunes search for MAKE or visit the top 100, we’re somewhere in the top 100 right now. And lastly (and perhaps the best way). Just click here and when iTunes opens up, click SUBSCRIBE.
How to make a Post-it Mosaic
Clever, and has a step by step. my boss decided that we needed to do something fun and creative in one of our conference rooms – the one we use for brainstorming and internal meetings – and together we came up with the idea of filling the wall with post-it notes in a multicolored mosaic of (and i’m not sure whose idea this was) Elvis. Link.
How to Build a Speech Recognition Circuit
This article details the construction and building of a stand alone trainable speech recognition circuit that may be interfaced to control just about anything electrical, such as; appliances, robots, test instruments, VCR’s TV’s, etc. The circuit is trained (programmed) to recognized words you want it to recognize. Link.
Built: Video Camera Stabilizer
MAKE pal Alan shares his experiences from our first volume- I just finished building my $14 video stabilizer as seen in Make: Magazine, and I must say I am amazed with it. It has produced a nice, smooth pan in every test I have performed so far, and it seems sturdy enough that I can let it support my digital video camera without becoming too nervous Link.
