After staring at the Union Square clock about 100 times, I decided to replicate it at home, so that I can watch the digits scroll by on my desktop. I named the clock after one of my favorite quotes from the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops, where the protagonist is politely asked for […]
Using a laser diode, steering mirrors, and a non-imaging photodetector, Stéphane Perrin, Alvaro Cassinelli, Masatoshi Ishikaw from the University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Hashimoto Laboratory have built a low-power and potentially low-cost interactive laser display called Sticky Light that projects a ball of light that interacts with the viewer in realtime. Potential uses include video games, augmented reality, cheap heads-up displays, and various forms of interactive advertising.
Ever wonder why they call it an electronics “breadboard”? It’s time we try building on a *real* breadboard.
Ever wonder why they call it an electronics “breadboard?” Grab a hammer, some nails, and a slab of wood and let’s find out.
Rik and Frits Lyneborg from Let’s Make Robots! are back with an update on the latest and coolest developments in the hobby robotics scene. Links to projects highlighted this week: Patrickmccabe’s Lottery Simulation Geir Andersen’s Sea Rendering OddBot’s SplatBot MkII Mr g000ze’s Marblephone the Melody Machine Gareth’s ThunderBird 6 – Gold-Coin-Ring-BottleTop-Finder Subscribe to the MAKE […]
Michael Krumpus, a Hack Factory member who created the Hackvision gaming system, has come out with two fantastic new Arduino shield kits that he’s selling from his own store: The Video Experimenter shield is an Arduino shield that lets you do all kinds of experiments with video. * Overlay text and graphics onto a video […]
Natalie Freed, Jie Qi, and Adam Setapen gave me this pair of videos detailing their super cool Telescrapbook project. It’s a pair of semi-normal looking scrapbooks to which users can add sensor and actuator stickers when constructing pages. Manipulation of these stickers can then cause interesting things to happen in the corresponding pages of the […]
