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In the Maker Shed: Pixel Qi Display
The Pixel Qi screen from the Maker Shed is a revolutionary plug-and-play LCD display technology for your netbook. This one-of-a-kind 10.1-inch display offers two modes, an easy-to-read multimedia...
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Semi-Portable Computer Case
Ron from Milwaukee, WI, built this nicely executed computer case in a weekend at his friendly local hackerspace, Milwaukee Makerspace. I love how hackerspaces are so great for encouraging projects...
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Office Device Lets You Know When to Go
Andy Frey writes in to announce the iPotti, developed using the Make Controller: So, we have this issue at the office with our single-person bathrooms. We have one “m” bathroom and one “w” bathroom....
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Kinect + Open Drivers + Physics Engine = Piles of Kickable Corpses
I first met John Boiles in October 2009 at Dorkbot Austin, when he was an undergrad engineer at UT, and was presenting an RC car he’d hacked so that it could be driven just by tilting his iPod. He’s...
View ArticleFirst Two Mod Men Episodes
If you’re into casemodding, you’ll likely appreciate this web series built on the tried and true formula of car, motorcycle, home-customizing shows. It’s been described as “American Choppers for...
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Giant etch-a-sketch built using projector
Members of the Manchester, UK hakcerspace HAC:Manchester used a projector, an Arduino, and some rotary encoders to build this giant project-a-sketch. Here’s a video of it in use by Maria of...
View ArticleMake a large display from a bunch of small ones
Rick Borovoy of MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media Project developed the Junkyard Jumbotron, which makes it easy to turn a bunch of small computer displays into one big one. Setting it up is as simple as...
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Dramatic Gestures With Kinect
I’m indebted to a commenter on yesterday’s Kinect + Tesla Coils post for pointing me to the website of artist, engineer, and interaction designer Gerry Chu. Among the many treasures in Gerry’s online...
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