Yesterday this year's ITP Summer Camp kicked off with a series of how to introductions, basic "Hello World" courses, giving introductions to soldering, Arduino, Processing, and how to use their...
Posted by Alasdair Allan | Tuesday June 4th, 2013 9:00 AM
Categories: Tools, Workshop | No Comments
Aaaaaaaaand we have a serious new contender for the title of Best Who's-in-the-Box Ever. Adafruit senior designer Phillip Burgess was inspired by customers' observations that their new-ish 10 cm "Massive...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday April 30th, 2013 7:49 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Electronics | 1 Comment
Pulling a rabbit out of a hat is a neat trick. But how about wowing crowds of kids with an old suitcase that performs magic thanks to 18 synchronized, Arduino-powererd...
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Monday February 18th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Arduino, Fun & Games, Kids & Family | 2 Comments
Reid Bingham and Sean McIntyre, the duo behind Double One Design, created Autonomous Interactive Radio (AIR for short). It’s a Raspberry Pi-based DJ system which accepts MP3 files via email...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday December 19th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: General | 7 Comments
Fellow ITP student William Lindmeier created a project I like a lot called Magpi Radio: Magpi Radio uses text-to-speech to read tweets coming in from various channels. Volume and power...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Tuesday December 11th, 2012 5:00 AM
Categories: Raspberry Pi | 2 Comments
My friend Sean McIntyre and his collaborator Reid Bingham created Public Constructions, a light installation that borrows its aesthetic from construction barricades and warning lights. The tech behind it is...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Sunday December 9th, 2012 6:18 AM
Categories: Electronics, Art & Design | No Comments
Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, and R&D dude for Digi (makers of the XBee), let us know about Digi’s new XBee examples site (http://examples.digi.com), which features contributions...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Thursday July 26th, 2012 10:30 AM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Two of my classmates at ITP made this incredibly fun sendup of the game Plinko from The Price Is Right. It’s called Plinko Poetry and I’ve been having a lot...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Tuesday May 8th, 2012 5:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Craft | 2 Comments
In honor of the classic video game Frogger on its 30th birthday, my friend Tyler DeAngelo conceived a version of the game that uses a webcam to track the live...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Thursday April 19th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
NYC Resistor’s Trammell Hudson is playing around with creating 3D images out of sliced .STLs from Thingiverse. Love it! While uploading a model to thingiverse, I noticed an ultra cute...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday March 1st, 2012 7:30 AM
Categories: 3D Printing | 1 Comment
It's uncanny how well even the most basic passive acoustic amplifier can improve the sound that emanates from tiny handset speakers. Even though I have yet to experience the pure...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday January 17th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, Music | 5 Comments
The students in our NYU ITP Sensitive Buildings class presented terrific final projects last Tuesday. They spent their Fall making the most of a unique opportunity to invent prototypes for...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Friday January 6th, 2012 9:30 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics | 1 Comment
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