Droid controlled MultiCuber 777 solves 7x7x7 V-Cube
The ARM powered Motorola Droid controlled LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot called MultiCuber 777 solves a 7x7x7 V-CUBE 7 in 38 minutes 54 seconds.
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Your Comments
And we’re back with our eighth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Simon suggests assembling your own DIY Retro kids tool sets: The earliest memory of tinkering I have is taking apart an old telephone with a butter knife when I […]
Cydia running on jailbroken iPhone 4
In this interview Jay Freeman (a.k.a Saurik) demos Cydia running on a jailbroken iPhone 4.
OpenCV for face detection on the iPhone
O’Reilly author Alasdair Allan (Learning iPhone Programming and the upcoming Programming iPhone Sensors) talked about using the OpenCV framework for face detection at OSCON in Portland, Oregon. In the video above, Mac Slocum interviews Alasdair from the expo floor of OSCON. For more information on Alasdair’s talk, check out his summary and slides.
Roger Linn’s newest music interface victim of tablet wars
Neither Roger nor myself is interested in making Amazon out as the bad guy. They’ve invested a lot in the Kindle and they’re within their rights to try to protect that investment. And I’m betting the folks who ran TouchCo were more than happy with the terms of their buyout. Still, watching this video, I have a nigh-irresistible urge to play with a LinnStrument, myself, and it irks me that I can’t get one.
Google has a Great Glass Elevator; they call it “Liquid Galaxy”
.all of a sudden, flying around in Google Earth really felt like flying, and exploring the ocean trenches was like piloting a submarine. When you splashed through the sea surface you cringed slightly, expecting to get wet. You could even command your own lander down to the Moon or Mars…With the Liquid Galaxy, we could fly through the Grand Canyon, leap into low-Earth orbit, and come back down to perch on the Great Pyramid of Giza without even breaking a sweat.
Flash videophone on Android
With Android videophone options looking a little slim, it’s nice to know that if you really wanted to cobble something together with Flash it would probably work. Evangelist Mark Doherty whipped up this proof of concept that shows what’s possible with the platform.
