[Lindsay Williams] has come up a novel way of constructing custom physical inputs for your programs. SenseSurface is a viable alternative to building a new interface for each application.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.15 at 14:34
By way of the Steampunk Workshop comes this incredible alt. victorian mouse, found on a Russian modder's forum. I guess the caged innards are to house the actual mouse that powers the contraption.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.07.15 at 13:59
A team of five high school seniors have released some videos of their new Guitar Hero bot named DeepNote. This bot uses a group of custom photodiode modules with an 8 nanosecond latency placed on the screen to sense the notes.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.14 at 19:32
[Elf] sent in this interesting DIY joystick glove. There aren't many details on the actual glove switch design, but from the schematic on the site, it seems to mostly consist of micro-switches with some pot adjusted transistors to calibrate the X-Y signals.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.14 at 16:44
Find and Grep are perhaps the most used command line tools for the Linux user or administrator. Terse but powerful, these two commands will allow you to search through files and their contents by almost any imaginable attribute or filter criteria: file name, date modified, occurrence of the some specific word in a file, etc.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.07.13 at 23:24
[Christopher Mitchell] (previously on Hack a Day) has come up with a rather interesting input device. The Clove 2 glove is a Bluetooth data input interface.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.12 at 11:56
This is fun -- a Google Map of where specific programming languages came from. You can also zip around Google Earth to see them too. .
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.07.12 at 10:46
[sophia] sent in this interesting little video of a USB popcorn popper. It might just work too - we've burned our digits a time or two on a hot flashlight.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.07.11 at 07:39
The Trons is one band that will sound the same in concert and on their recordings!
"The Trons are a completely self playing robotic junk band! They are made mostly from old computer and mechanical parts and play original songs using an array of old amps and instruments.
Via Hacked Gadgets | Posted on 2008.07.11 at 06:56
This is not a computer made of plywood, but a computer made with plywood. Sorry for the low quailty pictures. .
Via Instructables | Posted on 2008.07.10 at 16:08