Archive for the ‘Makers’ Category
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Some various links to sites highlighting some of the thinking and experimenting being done around 'adaptable' hardware. Some of it 'open-source-hardware'.
Anything used as a basis to build something else I like to refer to as a "prim" - borrowing from the secondlife concept of "primitives" - small basic building blocks ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Seeing this site and video made me think that a Lifekludger Research Lab would be a good idea. Someone getting behind outfitting Lifekludger endeavours.
Te GRL's slogan is "Dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication".
How cool would it be to have support for Lifekludging with the ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I came across this site called 5min.com. It's a how-to style video sharing site with heaps of neat tricks and tips.
This video below got me thinking about emergency backup sources for such things as alarms etc. Watch it to the end.
How to Get Free Electricity
Watch more DIY videos on 5min.comhttp://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Get-Free-Electricity-12198
Near ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
The "Walking Radar" project connects up a Basic Stamp and IR sensor to your cell phone in order to detect objects in the environment and influence games on the device or trigger SMS messages to be sent. [Make]
It occurred to me this gadget if hooked up to the vibration part ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
I recently came across this site called Export To World which offers a method of taking virtual objects created in Second Life and creating a physical paper model of it in First Life.
In effect making physical objects from virtual ones.
Novel concept you say, but so what?
Well, think of the situation ...
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