When your cell phone rings this little robot squirrel (depending if you’re there) will answer the phone, forward it, or take a message. The Maker, Stefan Marti writes – “Current mobile communication devices do not grab our attention in a socially appropriate way. They could be disrespectful of ongoing social activity such as an important […]
Comcast has been slow in the Bay area for weeks, I might need to go snail – “The system called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer… System architecture: the system is constructed of a back end […]
Blackrazor has a new Instructable on making a project case, he writes – “This project shows how to build a simple project case out of hardware store materials in about an afternoon. It is particularly suitable for projects that need user controls or displays. For this example, I built a case for the amazing “Wacky […]
The “Knows Your Name Elmo” has games, speaks phrases and tells stories. You can program in your kid’s birthday, name, favorite colors, etc..all via USB. So as you may guessed by now…someone has started to figure out how to hack him. Link.
There really isn’t any information on this project, but it looks like another excellent Roomba robot mod – this one is WiFi and web cam enabled. Link.
I spotted this awesome arcade emulator set up from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Ben Sinclair and wanted to find out what software was running all the emulators – Ben writes “I like Maximus Arcade because the UI is great and there is very little configuration. You just tell it what emulators to use and […]
I’m thinking that this hand gesture recognition software might be a good way to get some more input for the low-cost VR system, or it just might be a lot of fun…“With almost any color camera and sufficient processing power, this software collection implements a hand gesture interface. It detects the hand in a standard […]
