Detern – Geschwindigkeitsmessung per WebCam (measure speed by web cam?)
Site is in German, but with the software there it appears you can measure the speed of vehicles with a web cam (We didn’t test this out, please be careful, etc..) – Link.
Computers & Mobile
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Record more than 45 seconds of audio or video on the XO – OPLC laptop
Brian has a new OLPC, so that means he’s going to be hacking it a lot… He writes – If you go into the Record activity on the XO laptop, you’ll find that you can only record a maximum of 45 seconds of video and audio. But since almost everything in this little green wonder […]
Magic 8-Ball meets an MCU in a vinyl toy
Here’s a fascinating project over at SparkFun where they took one of the Munny “DIY” vinyl toys and embedded a Logomatic datalogger (with its LPC2138 MCU), a Nokia screen clone, and an accelerometer inside. The idea is to use the device as a sort of 21st century Magic 8-Ball, dubbed the Sinister 7. Pete, the […]
Cell Phone lets you use it with gloves still on
Designed for winter, this cell phone’s large buttons allow its user to use them outside while wearing thick gloves. The concept brings in to question what other specific types of contexts phones could be developed for or how they could be made to easily adapt to their environments and specific user scenarios in general. [via], […]
iPhone GPS addon
This looks like a really interesting iPhone GPS addon! – The iphone locoGPS module allows jail broken iphones to finally have GPS functionality. This module is in development and will be shipping in February. All software is open source and more applications are being written every day. The locoGPS module gives you the ability to […]
LED multitouch input device
An 8 x 8 LED-based multitouch input device using an ARM7 microcontroller with USB 2.0 with a >25Hz capture rate. LED Touch Panel – [via] Link
iPhone video recording hack
The iPhone can’t record, but with this hack/app from Monster and Friends you can record 5 seconds and after some more development maybe minutes/hours more… – [via] Link.
