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This would be a great tool for security people that are on the move. Theoretically they would be able to control camera via their iPhone from any location. Imagine being able to instantly look into rooms prior to entering. Adding a mobile interface to systems that traditionally required a user to be sitting at their […]
Keeping with the CRAFT shoe theme — Dr Martin’s has a “design your own boot” contest, so I made a boot I always wanted, one with a circuit board on it, specifically one with the Wave Bubble open source RF jammer – vote it up if you’d like to see this become a real boot […]
Bennett Williamson at FATLAB writes: The default Mac OS X (I’m on version 10.4.11) screensaver picture slideshow function can read an alpha channel in a .gif file. That is to say, as the slideshow plays your images, a .gif with an alpha channel will appear to be “on top” of the previous image, and as […]
The Gnaural Java applet allows you to playback binaural beat sequences in a web browser – arrange your own programs using the Gnaural software or simply download example programs and load them via the java interface. If you’re looking for something a little ‘flashier’ – check out this visual HTML Dreammachine. Far simpler than Gnaural, […]
If you’ve been put off by the complexity of the Max/MSP multimedia development software in the past, you might want to give the new version a looksee. The developers have given the software a pretty major overhaul, visually simplifying much of the interface. – Max 5 Of course, the $495 price tag still remains an […]
As John Park puts it: “I took the whole art of double-clicking on an icon and made it really complicated and brought it into the physical world.” He made a conveyor belt that has an RFID reader underneath. When you place a wooden icon tile for a website (which has an RFID tag on it), […]
This weekend at Maker Faire Instructables brought their laser cutter and was laser etching laptops, phones, and other things for free. My favorite is Alex Schlegel’s fractal-etched Vaio (source image included). If you had your gear etched, add a picture to the MAKE Flickr pool!
