I jammed Santa’s GPS so he couldn’t find his way to your house.
“In a high-population-density city, inhabitants must be prepared to defend their own personal space. Technologies that increase personal productivity are on the rise, even though they may intrude on others. The unavoidable reaction is to create technologies that counteract other people’s devices. Wave Bubble is a product that counters the all-too-familiar annoyance of loud ring tones and overt cell-phone conversations in public.“
Part of the “Social Defense Mechanisms” projects designed for my MEng thesis.
Wave Bubble was developed under support by EYEBEAM during my R&D fellowship at the Open Lab, thanks!
Wired: Your custom artwork permanently laser-etched!
I’ve just started a new service under the Adafruit Industries umbrella: Adafruit Laser Services. Its like a tattoo parlor, but for your gear. Customize your goods with your artwork, not stock images, not some lame character-limited engraving. We can do just about everything, including every sort of iPod, laptop, cellphone, PDA, game console, etc.
If you wanted to try out the MIDIsense hardware but didn’t have a Mac, well I finally finished porting the wxpython code to C++ and its all much faster and more reliable. I also improved the interface and robustness. Try it out and let me know how it goes, available for download from sourceforge
This is where I work, next year we’ll have a new batch of people so, apply!
Join the OpenLab and Make Your Mark in the Public Domain
Eyebeam is now accepting applications for the next round of R&D Fellows in the R&D OpenLab. We are looking for hardware and software hackers, techno arts-and-craftsters, and all types of open source makers to come to New York City and develop experimental creative technologies and media. The OpenLab represents an opportunity for selected individuals to work in a state-of-the-art digital fabrication laboratory, to collaborate with a range of talented technologists and artists from diverse and hybrid backgrounds, to gain international exposure for innovative work and to directly enrich the global DIY community, free culture and the public domain. Join past OpenLab Fellows and projects like MintyBoost, OGLE (OpenGLExtractor), SlashLinks, LED Throwies, Contagious Media and FundRace and make your mark in the Public Domain.
Yay I’m done with another small kit. This one is a nice battery-powered USB charger. You can plug in anything that charges over USB like iPods, cameras, cell phones, etc. to get a lot more run-time. It runs off of 2 AA batteries, alkaline or rechargeables and has 2.5x more juice than a 9V-powered design.
Some numbers…
iPod video (tested, using alkaline batteries): 3hrs more video (1 full recharge)
iPod shuffle (unverified): 60 hours more (5 full recharges)
iPod mini (unverified): 26 hours more (1.5 full recharges)
This project is suitable for beginners, some soldering tools are necessary but even if you’ve never soldered before it should be pretty easy. You can etch a circuitboard and/or breadboard this up, or simply buy a kit.
I also spent a bunch of time documenting the process by which kits are born, so that people can learn about how to design stuff like this.
I finally got off my butt and finished documentation for MIDIsense, a simple and inexpensive MIDI/sensor system for artists, musicians and experimenters. I did a workshop with these in March and they worked great so I’m happy that they’re finally available.
The only board I’ve released so far is for log resistive sensors. These are pretty common: photocells, bend/flex sensor, force sensors. My example right now is a laser harp using $3 laser pointers and $0.50 photocells. I’ll probably do an example with a bend-sensor glove or tapping a force sensor next. I’m also, of course, hoping people decide to buy the kits and come up with neat new interfaces.
I’ll release the Analog/Digital I/O board next, which will be much simpler, in a sense…but will allow 5 buttons/switches and 6 analog inputs, such as distance sensors and linear potentiometers.
More importantly, I need to hack on the windows python code because the windows MIDI subsystem seems quite slow in comparison to even a 3 year old iMac!
Hi guys, sorry for the delay. just wanted to let you know I’ve become totally excited by this new piece of web social networking software called WEBringr. The public beta started today (i got in early cause i’m friends with a devloper, etc etc.) so join the HackingRingr today!
