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Handy tip from the prolific Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories on running PC apps without using Windows… One of the nice things about having an Intel-based Mac is that you can, in principle, run a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows. You can do this using Apple’s Boot Camp utility, or through virtual machine programs […]
Skatter Tech writes – Just about every new laptop purchased today is bundled with a built-in web cam. It’s a great accessory for video conferencing, but there are also plenty of other useful things to do with them. This tutorial will demonstrate how to turn just about any web camera into a security camera which […]
Brian sent in this MIDI bridge for the iPhone, holy smokes this is cool and looks like it will get even better soon, he writes – Istanbul based vj collective artificialeyes.tv announce the availability of i3L_v0.1, the first iphone to midi bridge for audio and video software as a free download. i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) […]
This is neat, colorization of black and white photos using optimization. The Matlab code of the algorithm is on the site too… – Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these […]
This Instructable gives you the skinny on soldering electroluminescent (EL) wire. How to Solder EL (Electroluminescent) Wire – Link Related: Electroluminescent butterfly night-lights – Link Make a Glowing, Wearable, EL-Wire, Blinky Light… – Link. EL wire barbershop pole… – Link. The EL lamp project – Link. EL wire projects on MAKE – Link.
Jake writes – Andy sent me a couple of shots of his beautiful stamp decorated keyboards. He write that he’s made about 10 of these beauties. Each of his keyboards are made with the stamps of a single nation and often commemorate a royal coronation or celebrate a particular sport. Andy’s friends and family are […]
Wow, VMS just turned 30 and it (still) runs all sorts of important things… – Gareth Williams, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Minor Planet Center since 1990, has been tracking the 400,000 orbits of known asteroids and comets in the solar system using a cluster of 12 VAXes, from offices on the Harvard […]
