No I don’t mean that crappy plastic board. Some students made this Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 it’s a horse hair board that is a very complex but well done project. It’s worth the read to find out how they did the dart detection alone.
Next big future has an entry titled Rewritable holograms will revolutionize medicine and advertising, it’s about a group at University of Arizona who created a rewritable 3d hologram. It’s apparently pretty fast and they’re working on a full color version. They talk about advertisements and TV, but I wonder about it’s impact on [...]
MAKE: Blog: LED art all over Boston today is a post that talks about the art installations commemorating the chaos caused by the LED mooninites last year. At least the police realize this time that they’re not bombs, this time.
I’m a big fan of open source, and I’m a big fan of electronics. Naturally this project, MAKE: Low cost open source VGA compatible video card sparked my interest. It’s an open hardware VGA card. Meaning that if you were so inclined you could buy all the component parts, download the eagle [...]
MIT in it’s infinite wisdom has already made all it’s courses available online via Open Course Ware. Since they’ve done this they’ve now released the material for their 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer: PS3 Cell Programming. Dig in and learn some parallel algorithm and other geeky things.
Check out this MAKE: Blog: “Cloud” digital sculpture found by make. The YouTube video is astounding. It’s really quite hypnotic and certainly captivating. It’s not only a beautiful art piece but no minor engineering feat.
It’s an eyeball that just follows you around the room. It’s X-eye. It’s creepy, it’s awesome. It’s even set to blink one second after the person looking at it blinks. Get creaped out by Opto-Isolator – Flong. Kind of makes me want to remake one.
Make has posted a great project by someone to line up a bunch of solenoids and produce a rhythm on various object in his workshop. It’s powered by an Arduino and he made his own relay board.
MAKE: Blog: Solenoid concert
It’s right up there with Dueling steppers and automata crazy.
I’d like this for Christmas. Unfortunately there’ll probably be a better one next year.