Wouldn’t it be cool to use a Kinect to interact with that fancy rich user interface you just whipped up in Flash? Well, prepare to be stoked. Interactive agency BLITZ has got you covered. Check out their demo video above. Word has it that they’ll be dropping source code today.
Space is at a huge premium in my tiny apartment, which is why I absolutely adore Noëlle’s hacked dual-purpose table. Using an adjustable trestle for legs (available at hardware or home stores), it can easily convert from a coffee table to a dining table. She even used a pair of curtain rods attached underneath the […]
I especially like the use of staples as emergency jumpers.
Lish posted the following on CRAFT: Who says cupcakes are just for crafters?! There’s a hackerspace challenge right now to send a cupcake in pristine condition to another hackerspace across the country. I’m wondering — have any of you tried to mail cupcakes or cakes before? Any tips and/or tricks? Those are my sprinkle cupcakes […]
If you’re one of the lucky folks to have received a Google Cr-48 notebook computer running Chrome OS, you might find it interesting that the same hardware can also run Mac OS X. Though it doesn’t have hardware accelerated graphics and the track pad is a little glitchy, it does seen like it could be a fun rainy day project.
My new Kinect is a very cool toy, but it was not lost on me, as I was plugging it in, that I’d given the Microsoft hive-mind a pretty sophisticated set of eyes and ears onto my living room. Sure, I suppose I could only plug it in when I’m using it, but I’m kind of a neat freak about my entertainment center wiring and I don’t want to be digging the Xbox out every time I decide I want certain privacy. Some kind of lens-cap arrangement seemed the easiest solution, and making it out of the foam that the Kinect came packed in avoids the danger of picking some material that might scratch the device or otherwise be incompatible with it over the long term.
Getting iPhone push notifications from objects in your physical world is possible using an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield, a PHP-enabled web server and an iPhone app called Prowl. In this video, I show how to set up a mailbox so that it pings your phone when snail mail is delivered, but it’s very easy […]
