Hardware

Arduino Starter Kit Video

December 2, 2008

How-to Tuesday: Fun with the Arduino Starter Kit from make magazine on Vimeo. My Arduino Starter Kit shipped today, and I’m super excited. I’m got a bunch of ideas about things that I want to make.

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Minority Report Style UI for real

November 17, 2008

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

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Plastic Logic Previews Electronic-Reading Device at DEMOfall 08

September 8, 2008

Plastic Logic revealed their new electronic ink device today at DEMOfall. The size is the same as 8.5 x 11-inch paper and is about as thick as pad of paper. It’s said to be lighter than many business periodicals. “Research confirms professionals read much more business content than recreational content. They require access to all [...]

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Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interfaces

June 1, 2008

This is some older technology that has been “superseded by other projects.” but is still pretty interesting to see. Part 1: Part 2: There is more information on the Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interfaces project site

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e-ink video

May 30, 2008

This little video is a little old, by new technology standards, but I thought it was still a nice showcase of the various e-ink work that is being done.

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Using the Wii Balance Board as an Input Device

May 28, 2008

I’m looking forward to see what comes of this. I’m not sure if anyone is paying attention, but there’s s market for odd bluetooth enabled input devices.

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Windows XP on the OLPC demo

May 15, 2008

Watch and enjoy. I can’t wait to get my hands on this to try out. I’m really interested to see what it would be like to develop for. I’m also curious to learn more about the Unlimited Potential group inside of Microsoft.

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OLPC, future of computing, and stuff…

May 11, 2008

I’m sitting here in a Starbucks trying out the OLPC as a blogging platform. It’s a great little machine for so many reasons, but I’m actually finding myself a little limited trying to do real stuff that I do everyday on this system. Sure it wasn’t designed for this at all so I will be [...]

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Video of my iPhone getting laser etched

April 23, 2008

Video of my iPhone getting laser etched Originally uploaded by futileboy Here’s a short little video clip of the etching machine in action. I have to say CO2 lasers are super cool. I think I want one of these.

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QR codes laser etched on my phone

April 23, 2008

CR codes laser etched on my phone Originally uploaded by futileboy My iPhone is all customized and pretty thanks to Instructables.com. They are offering free laser etching at the Web2.0 Expo if you bring a high contrast image on a thumb drive. First person to decode my QR codes gets a cookie.

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