In this BBC piece, an IBM engineer on the Isle of Wight, shows off the 16th century thatched cottage that he’s wired with sensors and connected to Twitter. In the article that accompanies the video, he uses a term he’s apparently coined for objects that tweet: “tweetjects.” I’m here to try and stage a lexicographical […]
Josh Sulkin, of FlyOnTime.us, has created this interesting little Twitter crowdsourcing experiment: I’d like to announce some major changes to the Apps For America 2 entry FlyOnTime.us, as well as ask for your help in a “crowdsourcing” experiment I’m conducting. First the experiment…I originally wanted to incorporate the data from the TSA’s airport security line […]
John Rausch’s Puzzle World website showcases some incredible and ingenious objects from Rausch’s own puzzle collection, and from those of others. The site is divided into categories like interlocking solid puzzles, impossible object puzzles, sequential movement puzzles, etc. It’s a nearly inescapable click-trap. Shown here are two of my favorites, so far. Above is Stewart […]
Rex Research is a great site, chock-full of info about wacky inventions that never made it, including a bunch of free-energy quackery and pseudoscience that’s still a lot of fun if you take it with a grain of salt. One of my favorite pages so far is this collection of weird-ass boats that folks have […]
Spotted on Liquidware, the new version of their Arduino IDE now supports Ruby scripting. It is integrated as a Scripting tab in the Arduino IDE. Upon startup, a listing of your ruby script files is generated from your Sketchbook directory. Ruby scripting support is built into the Antipasto Arduino IDE in versions 0.8.11 or greater.
Morgellon posted steps on publishing Arduino sensor readings to the web via Pachube – I recently discovered Pachube and have just fell in love with it. This is a video of my first Pachube project and what I’ve been able to do. I connected two light sensors to an Arduino. One sensor measure light levels […]
Based on the Twitter LED Scroller by David Nichols, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories built out this RGB Twitter scroller on a Meggy Jr. In this video (embedded above), we start out scrolling slowly and then advance to a faster rate by pressing buttons on the arrow keys on the laptop’s keyboard– interesting that you can […]
