Artist and MAKE subscriber Michael Marcovici sent us the link to these amazing lamps he made out of mounted slides and reels of film. While you're at his site, check out his other amazing work.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.13 at 14:32
There's an OpenStreetMaps group mapping going down in Manhattan next weekend, no prior GPS-ing required - OpenStreetMap is only as good as the contributions of the people who edit it.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.13 at 08:33
The Purple Pedals project consists of 20 solar-powered, geotagging, photo-taking, flickr-uploading bicycles called the ybike. It's also a really interesting look at why a major sponsor would fund such an unusual project.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.02.09 at 03:36
GPSd is a TCP daemon that displays location data that's been polled from a connected GPS device. The are a lot of unix location-aware applications that use GPSd instead of communicating directly with a GPS device since it allows more than one application to access the device at a time.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2009.01.13 at 20:00
New mashup Web site reveals the hole story behind Japan's manhole covers / Ittemia?????????
While not the oddest fetish in Japan by a long way, there are some who travel the length of Japan enticed by the prospect of a compellingly designed manhole.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.12.29 at 02:52
?Robert Sollis, a student at the Royal College of Art wrote an email to Google asking for a marker to be placed on Google Maps for the college's temporary site in Kensington Gardens.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.11.14 at 06:06
Simon writes in about his SV Chronometer – a GPS based, interactive master clock-
This is a little blog post about a device I built to provide me with an accurate time reference I can use to synchronise all the timepieces in my house.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.11.05 at 07:16
Mozilla Labs has launched yet another new project, this one a location based plugin for Firefox. Geode will let users to take advantage of location data embedded within a web page.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.10.07 at 17:18
We wrote about [Chris Anderson] before when he released the Arduino based autopilot. He has since crashed his first Predator UAV, due to an underpowered motor and poor control of the v-tail only steering.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.10.05 at 17:01
Incredibly interesting article about GPS spoofing and the theoretical "hijacking" of a truck via Schneier on Security. Jon Warner of Argonne National Laboratories set out to examine GPS security one Saturday afternoon.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.09.19 at 14:31