7 in 7: Day 4
The fourth day of 7 in 7 at ITP revealed Seasonal Salad Dress, Spammed!, Face the Web and “Cheating” Book Cover. Click on a picture to read about each one-day project in the 7 in 7 blog. Days: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Computers & Mobile
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for digital gadgetry, open code, smart hacks, and more. Processing power to the people!
Fractal table
This table is made through rapid prototyping (3D printing) of branches that become increasingly more dense at the top to form a planar surface. It was developed by Platform Wertel Oberfell and Matthias Bär. Via Core 77. Related: Rapid prototyped brain lamp Avatar… in real life (3D printing)
Realtime sensor network awaits your input … or output
Wow, this could grow into something quite awesome. Pachube is – a web service that enables people to tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices and spaces around the world, facilitating interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual. The idea is to make it relatively simple to “plug” together interactive projects […]
HOW TO – Add a keyboard backlight to an Eee PC for under $15
Here’s how to add a keyboard backlight to an Eee PC for under $15 @ Popular Science… As we showed you in our May 2008 issue, Asus’s Eee PC has quickly become a favorite of hardware hackers around the web. Here, we offer the first installment of our Eee PC School series. Check back in […]
Password generator will make you look even nerdier
The “Pass Key”, pictured above, is a 5 volt powered computer the size of a candy bar that generates 16-digit alphanumeric passwords faster than you could possibly ever need. Still it’s pretty cool that this device does the Steve Job’s iPod “Nano” trick as well and fits into the tiny pocket in your jeans. Build […]
The Etiquette Table
This is a nice interactive artwork that generates music based on the users placement of the objects on the table. The website has a lot of photos of the build, and you can even download some music for free! Although there’s a lot of technology going on to make the Etiquette installation work, one of […]
Custom Hard Drive LED & driver
This isn’t just a skull with a few LED’s for your computer. The LED’s fade in and out with disk activity instead of that annoying flicker. The circuit could be used for a lot of different projects, not just case mods. On/Off blinking Hard-Drive led can get quite annoying sometimes or it doesn’t seem to […]
