The EnableTalk system uses a glove-mounted microcontroller to collate information from a passel of onboard sensors—11 flex sensors, 8 touch sensors, 2 accelerometers, a compass, and a gyroscope—and transmit it...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday September 21st, 2012 6:06 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile | 3 Comments
David Schneider of IEEE Spectrum has an interesting article up about a system he set up to improve his Skype-mediated telepresence at their editorial meetings. Physically, the system consists of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday July 18th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: General | 2 Comments
In an effort to shave off precious microseconds from the tedium of having to manually switch modes in his favorite multi-modal text editor, Aleksandr Levchuk fashioned a USB clutch pedal...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday June 25th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 3 Comments
Last September, I wrote about the Thingiverse “Cube Gears” phenomenon, briefly tracing the origin of user emmett’s Screwless Cube Gears through its evolution from Haruki Nakamura’s papercraft geared heart sculpture...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday June 14th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing | No Comments
I especially like the new streamlined Space Invader shapes. I always wondered what they really looked like.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 4th, 2012 1:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design | 9 Comments
EagleUp is the work of Swiss design engineer Jerome Lamy. It runs inside SketchUp and requires co-installation of ImageMagick. The script will automatically generate a 3D model of a printed...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday March 22nd, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 4 Comments
Using contact mics that detect hand gestures through the aid of software, the Mogee is an electronic musical instrument that can be appended to virtually any rigid object.
Posted by Michael Colombo | Wednesday February 29th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Craft, Electronics, Music | 1 Comment
Mark is a programmer who hates writing regular expressions. So he wrote a kind of visual regular expression generator that starts with the string to be searched, identifies recognizable patterns...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday April 15th, 2011 8:54 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Tools | 3 Comments
Software is a mix of computer instructions and data, but rarely do you get to see how the two interact in memory. Ben Fry visualized the code of several classic...
Posted by John Maushammer | Friday October 8th, 2010 6:44 PM
Categories: Craft, Fun & Games | No Comments
So I was really stoked this morning to read this post over on the Thingiverse Blog about the advent of OpenSCAD, which does for 3D CAD what POV-Ray did for...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday November 25th, 2009 9:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Computers & Mobile, Tools | 7 Comments
As you can see, Montage takes all the work out of combining a bunch of individual images into an array of images, dealing automatically with all the resizing, cropping, arranging,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday October 22nd, 2009 2:28 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Tools | 3 Comments
I don’t do CAD or 3D printing, but this software at least looks promising from my armchair. It’s an open source CAD/CAE app based on OpenCasCade, QT, and Python. It...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday October 12th, 2009 8:10 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Open Source Hardware | 3 Comments
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