How-To: Connect with Nature as You Type
This fantastic keyboard mod is by my friend and fellow ITP classmate Robbie Tilton, who created it in a class called Design for Digital Fabrication.
Technology
Finger-mounted Device Creates Its Own Touch Interface
Flipping the touch screen paradigm on its ear, a group from Autodesk Research, the University of Toronto, and the University of Alberta have created a new method and apparatus for user interaction. Dubbed Magic Finger, the system consists of a micro NanEye RGB camera, an optical mouse sensor, and an LED attached to the index finger with hook and loop.
Happy Lady Ada Day!
Lady Ada Day celebrates the life of Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron credited with being the world’s first computer programmer.
Making Drones in Tijuana
I was invited to speak at Tijuana Innovadora, a regional conference/expo. Mark Hatch of TechShop, Jason Short, an industrial designer by day and Drone programmer by night, as well as David Cuartielles of the Arduino team also came to speak on an open source hardware panel.
Pumpkin PCB Kit
This simple but clever kit lets you build a pumpkin-shaped flickering light.
Using a Wii Remote as a MIDI Controller
Nerd rockstars Audiobody have a new tutorial on using a Wii remote as a MIDI controller. Use your Wii Remote as a MIDI controller! Controlling your favorite music software with a Wii Remote is actually much easier than you might imagine. You don’t have to hack your Wii Remote or buy expensive software. In fact, […]
Raspberry Pi Doubles RAM to 512MB, Price Unchanged
The Raspberry Pi foundation announces that boards shipped from their distributors will now have double the memory.