Firefox bling
Laser your own Foxbling, created by Tobi Leingruber (pictured upper right). Show your rapper friends your favorite browser in mirrored acrylic. The file’s available on Thingiverse.
Computers & Mobile
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Perler bead QR codes
Looking for an easy way to generate QR codes capable of incorporating into an asphalt mosaic, John from mtoynbee.com found that Perler (aka melty) beads are the way to go. Not only can you position them in a grid, but they are also large enough to be picked up by a standard cameraphone.
Adding VGA output to a Beagleboard
Interested in playing with the open-source Beagleboard, but don’t have a DVI-capable monitor to use it with?
Geneva wheels on Thingiverse
Apparently I’m not the only one charmed by the simple elegance of the Geneva wheel movement (Wikipedia). Thingiverse users PrintTo3D and raumfahrtagentur have created printable and laser-cut-able versions, respectively, of the classic mechanism. PrintTo3D has also posted a YouTube video showing the final printing, assembly, and action of his model.
Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results
This dude is Hans Christian Ørsted, whose 1820 discovery that electric current produced magnetic fields was, supposedly, entirely accidental: He was preparing a voltaic pile for a lecture demonstration and there happened to be a compass lying nearby. He has become a sort of mascot for the Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR), a new open-access journal initiative that hopes to provide a forum for life and computer scientists to publish results they lucked into and maybe can’t fully explain. From their website:
Experimenter iPhone app
The Experimenter iPhone app is chock full of timeless backyard science experiments. Sure, you could troll YouTube and find similar material, but the folks at Cramzy have done all the tedious work for you. And it’s nice to have everything in one simple interface.
Multi-touch on Android 2.1
What gives with multi-touch on the Android OS? Earlier this month when asked about multi-touch on the Nexus One, Google seemed a little touchy about it. It would seem both the hardware and software support multi-touch, but you won’t see it implemented in any of the built-in applications. That’s OK because folks like cyanogen go out of their way to explore the possibilities.
