We have seen a number of stunning demonstrations of augmented reality implemented on a table. This time it is “bastianbroker” on YouTube who has uploaded a video in which he uses a homemade table to demonstrate a 3D display. The whole equipment comprises of a table, a beamer to throw light on the table, camera, sensors to respond to touch, and Microsoft’s Kinect. Seems like a pretty simple group of tools and in case you possess Kinect, you may go for a try yourself.
Won’t you love to get your Lumia 800 charged wirelessly? If you are brave enough to mod your premium Windows Phone handset you can certainly get it charged placing on Palm’s Touchstone via conductive technology. You can get inspiration for this DIY act from a YouTube user, namely Oli Gill according to WPCentral, who has posted a video clip that demos his successful effort to transform a Lumia 800 handset to a wirelessly chargeable phone.
Occasionally you find your private space invaded by thoughtless people who think stepping into your comfort zone is acceptable. You can outright tell the person you don’t like to feel his breath on your face but then, you risk sounding offensive. Zac Ong, a student of interactive media, has designed a potential answer to this problem. The Repel is an interactive device that is fitted with the essential machinery to understand when someone is too close and give a warning to the person. The entire device is fastened to a strap to be draped across your body, but it is very bulky and noticeable so you better wear a flattering outfit to offset the bad design.
Dan Dixon has shaped up this affluent interactive coffee table powered by Arduino platform. As part of his A2 Product Design project and inspired by an Arduino IKEA Coffee table, Dixon has built his own DIY coffee table with many features and a nice design. Well, like most other interactive coffee tables it also sports an LED grid. But a set of other things that include an LED display, control buttons and others make the table unique.
You may already have received your Raspberry Pi single-board computer or will be waiting for its delivery. What you plan to do with this debit card sized embedded computer? Perhaps, like most others you may also intend to do some funny computer projects with it. For this, Adafruit’s inventive Prototyping Pi Plate Kit is now also getting ready for you. The kit can easily be snapped onto your Raspberry’s PCB to bring you enhanced prototyping goodness to help make building on the Pi.
How interactive can a poster get? You ask this to “Michael Robinson” who is an employee of a London-based creative company called Agency Republic and he will make a Spotify based poster for you. This poster changes music tracks as you throw something on it.
Justin Lange, a student at NYU seems to have been deeply missing his dad’s guitar play, whose shoulder got dislocated in an accident and left him unfit to play the guitar. Justin though tried to win back dad’s happiness by working on a project that would help his father play guitar again. Though, his dad remained pessimistic about the possibility of such thing, Justin successfully completed a mod for guitars, dubbed as Folkbox.
Based on open-source single board microcontroller, Arduino the Folkbox mounts a frame over the finger board accompanied with a row of buttons mounted below the neck. The frame over the finger board is in turn connected to eighteen solenoids employed to push down the strings between the frets. The two-row button board helps in making choice of the desired chord. While the first button lets you choose the key, the second allows to switch between the chords. We were impressed by the scope of this setting as it can be used by people with different types of disabilities. In case the arm is completely unusable the row of buttons can be replaced by a foot pedal array to help play the chords. Though the current setting is limited in number of chords it can play, Justin is committed to add more chords to it with time.
Via: Make
The ever progressing realm of modern day electronics has admirably made its presence felt in nigh every facet of our sedentary lifestyle. However, this expansive ambit of gadgetry innovation does have its fair share of bloopers along the way. Well, the Trinary Laser Gloves aptly epitomizes this ‘nonsense’ side of electronics. Basically, a pair of gloves that emanates light through its fingertips, this vapid conception is supposed to be a next generation device for both public and personal interactive entertainment.
BrainDeadLock Labs came out with a very interesting hack, which resulted in a fully functional tablet made from a Macbook. The “MessagePad” project was inspired by other projects such as DIY MacBook Tablet and iTab, where tablet projects on the laptops were all the fury before the tablet and iPhone/iPad boom. The project’s name is pulled from Newton MessagePad, as Apple hasn’t released any handheld based system since then.
Ever wondered what it would be like to own a clock like the one which the Weasley family owned in the Harry Potter series of books? What was seemingly an idea from a fantasy just got freakishly real, with a little help from Christopher “Kirgy” McKirgan. A student of theology, this British hacker was always interested in computing. His passion for hacking coupled with a serious devotion to Foursquare, a popular geo-tagging and location sharing service, prompted him to take up this project and make the Foursquare Clock a reality.
