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While waiting patiently for what is likely the galaxy’s slowest turbolift, spacefaring duo Metalmags (Erica Magrey) & The Alien Ambassador (Collin Cunningham) take a casual stroll through the seams of their own chroma-keyed reality – in search of an answer to that age-old question, “Why are we here?”
Read more on how the vid was made –
http://blog.stage.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/collins_lab_diy_sci-fi.html
This post over at Hack N Mod is titled “World’s Most Stunning Data Centers.” In point of fact, only two are mentioned, but the photos are pretty stunning. Shown uppermost, the Skynet system core Microsoft Chicago Data Center (of which more and better pictures are available here), and immediately above, the Stockholm facilities of Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, which are located in a Cold War-era underground nuclear shelter. A video tour is available here.
Starlino writes: For the hardware I used the Acc_Gyro sensor and a thumb-size PIC platform UsbThumb built around the inexpensive PIC18F14K50 chip that provides all the necessary USB connectivity and ADC inputs. This setup is actually hardware compatible with my original Motion Gamepad design so all the software utilities and firmware will work on the […]
Has anyone tried this Virtual Breadboard software out? It can be used to perform circuit simulations, and now includes a full, working virtual Arduino. Looks to be Windows only. VirtualBreadboard is an easy to use simulation and modelling tool that can be used in place of a real breadboard for quickly performing experiments and testing out electronic and microcontroller powered ’embedded’ applications.
Maker Faire SF is a little over a month away – before, during and after there’s an amazing torrent of photos that hit the web. Each year I see tens of thousands whip out their iPhones and phones to take photos of all the amazing things at the Faire. Here are some handy tips for […]
My friend Matt showed me the quick and dirty urban camouflage iPad case he made out of an old composition notebook cover and a scrap of non-slip rug padding. This has to be the coolest iPad case I’ve seen to date.
The folks at iFixIt hired the computer forensics muscle of Chipworks to X-ray, cross-section, grind through, and thoroughly photograph the Apple A4 processor used in the iPad. Here’s some of what they found: * The A4 package has three layers: two layers of RAM (Samsung K4X1G323PE), and one layer containing the actual microprocessor. * This […]
