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More Physical Computing Goodies….
If this is boring you it is not my fault….Here are some more Goodies :-) Abstractmachine is a very cool site owned by Douglas Stanley. Lots of Processing…YUMM :-) Ladyada.net and the sister site Adafruit Industries are THE place to hang out if you enjoy hacking/creating things. Limor has some of the coolest interfaces and…
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Eyebeam OpenLab
Stumbled across this earlier today and did not get a chance to make a note of it. From the overview portion of the page: “The Eyebeam OpenLab is a home for artists, engineers and hackers pioneering open source creativity. The first initiative of its kind, the lab is focused entirely on incubating experimental technologies and…
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Guitar Heronoid
The credit for the discovery of this one I guess goes to the anonymous poster who commented on our “Wii Controller Hacking” post. Anyways, what the heck is a Guitar Heronoid, you ask? Well, It’s a “Guitar Hero Humanoid”, I guess. A neat project brought to you by GarageGeeks members Rafael Mizrahi and Tal Chalozin.
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So you locked yourself out of your Mac….
It’s actually quite easy to reset the admin account using the install CD, but what do you do if you don’t have the CD? Well there are two ways of doing it. This is the simple way, but only works in 10.4.x+: Reboot Hold down Apple + s down when you hear the chime (this…
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Tons of Controllers, Sensors and Physical Computing stuff
Okay this is more for me since I keep having to digg this stuff up…..but if any of it is useful to you please help yourself: Tom Igoe’s Resource page has a lot of good links I won’t duplicate. Arduino, the current king of all prototyping platforms. Gumstix, these guys make some of the best…
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Wii Controller Hacking all grown up…..
Well after watching this piece of art by Daito Manabe, I’m now convinced that the Wii controller can be used as a instrument. This guy is incredible and truly shows what’s possible if you get your creative juices running wild.And to keep things interesting here are some links for you to explore: Some external objects…
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Little People are cool….
A little while back I came across Daily Dose of Imagery site and have been following the postings since. Then today I came across the little people’s site. Totally amazing, simple and elegant. Hop over there and check out the images. Slinkachu does some amazing stuff on his site.
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Stop…Go…Stop…Go…The art of Stop Motion
I’ve always liked the concept of Stop Motion Animation and with the recent surge of stop motion animation chatter at work, I’ve been looking into some of the software and sites that do this stuff. One of the community sites that I’ve come across that I think by far is the most creative is Brickfilms.com.…
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Iphone is so yesterday…..I want a MyPhone
So Iphone is all the rage now and if you don’t have one you’re not cool….right? Well, not exactly. You see there is this whole movement out there that believes your phone should be YOURS, not Apples, not MS’s, not anyone elses. I believe Nokia is getting there with the N800, but they are not…
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So you like Ubuntu….
Came across this the other day. Reconstructor is the new cool tool that allows you to grab you favourite ubuntu distro (desktop, alternate or server). Now you can have your Ubuntu and eat it too :-). It’s free and runs on linux (yeah there is a bit of a chicken and egg problem here). Well,…