Solarbotics held a few workshops and lectures at the MAKEr faire April 22/23rd. After giving a workshop, a nice man from Microsoft invited me over to see their BEAM robots. Obviously intregued, I found their display at the Microsoft pavilion where Microsoft encouraged all their engineers with "MAKE"-style hobbies to exhibit, including this squad of […]
Wednesday Links: Ballet, Draw-bots and K...
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November 19, 2014
Yet another selection of hand-picked links from all over the interwebs:
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Visualizing Ballet .. using Lilypad Arduino. Looks beautiful, produces drawing-like results and helps dancers to trace their movements for necessary feedback. (Via Arduino blog) |
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Tiny CNC-bot Beautiful little Piccolo, in it's second incarnation (first one was all clear acrylic). |
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3D printed Katana Case Is it katanas that make 3d printing better, or 3d printing makes katanas better? Either way it works. (Via Designboom) |
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MIDI Tine Organ This not a random set of words, it will make sense if you read the article. (Via Hackaday) |
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Spine and Cellphones These cell phones! They are the ultimate evil! (Via Geek.com) |
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Technology Index Closes...
We're sorry to report that Mr. Bilton of Technology Index has informed us that his popular UK webstore is shut down due to circumstances not having to do with its business. We hope things work out for Mr. Bilton, and that Technology Index will reopen for business when things get better.
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