transitlab

Look briefly at a few visual progamming languages for arduino.

Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something [...]

Image by oomlout via Flickr During the Nesta/40Fires workshop on Openhardware, I tweeted a quote “Arduino makes Hardware Easywhere”  during Daniel Soltis’s talk about Arduino. Now trying to remember who said it as it gets retweeted to …. a few times Was it @rainycat, Daniel, @oomlout or @ni or someone else? Would the original author [...]

As part of Inter_Multi_Trans_Actions First up was Bengt Sjolen(Stockholm)(http://www.automata.se/people/bengt/). He talked about a number of his works including one utilizing a servo-controlled citroen rearvision mirrors (Picture house at Belsay Hall, Northumberland) that used reflection to make a pixelated picture. An elegant piece was the wifi camera – a single pixel camera that builds up images [...]