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This installation by Magdalena Kohler and Hanna Wiesener called “Gelsomina” records your voice and knits the waveforms of the sound on a knitting machine controlled by 24 servos. I just got an electronic knitting machine and I can’t wait to dig in and hack together a computer connection for just this sort of project. Via […]
As the title suggests, s3fs is a FUSE-based file system for Amazon S3. What this means is that you can mount an S3 bucket and use it just like a standard disk—a crazy-huge distributed disk that you can mount from any machine. s3fs supports mode (e.g., chmod), mtime (e.g, touch) and uid/gid (chown). s3fs stores […]
“Click and Glue” is an autonomous installation that “locks itself into a corner” using a complex system of mechanical actions. The piece consists of a floating balloon equipped with a hot glue gun, nylon threads, electro-magnets, and an enclosure built with steel walls. The Balloon bounces between the walls puling a nylon thread behind itself, […]
Brett O’Connor wrote an informative article on using Amazon’s EC2 service to host a Bittorrent client. For an estimated $75/mo, he can feed his torrent addiction without impacting the bandwidth on his local network. For me, at home, trying to maintain my ratio has caused big problems for my evening Left 4 Dead sessions, and […]
Georgia Tech grad student Matt Gilbert has been making some awesome crochet from a pattern generator he made, finding inspiration in acoustics. He and I share a strong opinion that computing and iterative crafting (crochet, knitting, weaving, etc.) have much in common. He writes: While the Jacquard Loom allowed for the beautiful and elaborate patterns […]
Scrabble keyboard via Giz. Datamancer writes – This keyboard was commissioned by a couple of friends of mine from back east (NJ) who are avid Scrabble players. Most of the keys are made from real Scrabble tiles that were all hand-beveled (truly an exercise in patience/masochism!) and built onto a USB, clicky, mechanical-switch keyboard. This […]
Forget the Macbook air, there’s a new lightweight portable in town – Join our new video Maker (Kip Kay) as he shows you how to turn a modified hardback book in to a PDA powered “laptop” with keyboard.
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