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“In High School Chem Labs, Every Cameraphone Can Be a Spectrometer” on Wired.com. [via adafruit] University of Illinois chemistry professor Alexander Scheeline has developed software that turns a camera phone, an LED, and a few other cheap tools into a spectrometer. Armed with these, he thinks we can bring high-end analytic tools to high school […]
Riccardo Bovo designed this stool comprised of an algorithmically generated series of triangles, laser-cut and zip tied together. [via Pratt on Tumblr]
And we’re back with our seventeenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Over on Twitter, Justin Craft is ‘fixing’ a toy for his kids: Weekend project time, inspired by @make. Hacking my kid’s sadly low-powered race track. (photo) Math Campbell has […]
On of the big concerns with some of the low cost Android tablets hitting the streets recently is the lack of an Android Market app to browse and download other apps with. If you’re running an eighth generation Archos tablet, you now have an option of installing the Android Market app. After installing gApps4Archos.apk, it’s just a few clicks to install the Gmail app, Google Maps, Google Talk and Google Calendar.
This video guides you through developing applications for the iPhone and iPad platforms that make use of the onboard sensors: the three-axis accelerometer, the magnetometer (digital compass), the gyroscope, the camera and the global positioning system. You’ll learn how to make use of these onboard sensors and combine them to build augmented reality applications. This will give you the background to building your own applications independently using the hottest location-aware technology yet for any mobile platforms.
Part of this problem, posed by one Ernst Straus in 1952, is to design a polygonal room lined with mirrors having at least two points such that any ray starting at one point can reflect around the room forever without hitting the other point, and vice versa. One such room, shown above, was demonstrated by […]
Hackmeister Benjamin J. Heckendorn discovers that a cheapo hand powered light will crank out just enough juice to charge his HTC EVO. With Sprint bringing 4G to more cities recently, the usefulness of this hack will only increase.
