Codebox: Explore Recursion with Processing
This Codebox shows how to create a variety of geometric designs using recursion.
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Hands-On with the Android Open Accessory Development Kit
Yesterday, Google announced their open accessory kit based on Arduino. Although they aren’t immediately available for sale in the US, they (or something like what you see in this post) will be soon.
How-To: Tweeting Geiger Counter
Using a Netduino Plus and a Geiger counter kit, Fabien created a tweeting radiation monitor. You can check out the latest readings from the device (which is stationed in Seattle) or read through his detailed build instructions if you’d like to make your own. [via Adafruit] More: DIY Geiger Counters Take Center Stage iGeigie, an […]
Google Picks Arduino for Android Open Accessory “kit”
Google picks Arduino for Android Open Accessory “kit”… From the beginning, Android was designed to extend beyond the mobile phone. With that in mind, we’ve developed Android Open Accessory to help developers start building new hardware accessories that will work across all Android devices. We previewed an initiative called Android@Home, which allows Android apps to […]
Angriest Most Useless Machine
This very entertaining take on the classic most useless machine gag is not quite so patient as its ancestors. Oh sure, it does what they all do: When you turn it on, it turns itself off. And it’ll do that over and over again. But, much like my college roommate, the machine has its limits, and it’s probably wise not to push it too far.
Brainwave-Controlled Fuzzy Cat Ears
The motorized ears on this adorable headband by Neurowear move in relation to your brainwaves. Syuzi @ Fashioning Technology writes: Anthropomorphic fashion is commonplace in Japan having many subcultures that fetishize the insanely cute. But this novel approach to a high tech “fashion” headband steps up the “cutesy” factor to an insanely new level. I […]
Fun with RFID and NFC at Google I/O BootCamp
At the Google I/O BootCamp event in San Francisco, Brian Jepson gathered a sizable crowd as he showed off his Arduino NDEF Reader/RFID Twitter-Looker-Upper project to curious Android developers eager to gain some hands-on experience with the Near Field Communications technology available in the Nexus S Android smartphone.