Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm 
We saw this Craftsman tool skeleton ad while we watching Mythbusters on Discovery Channel - it’s very clever! They have Halloween wallpaper and an email tool on their site, too.
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm
mæve installation @ University of Applied Sciences Potsdam -
The interactive installation “mæve” (MACE-Everyville) provides visual and tangible access to the social and intellectual networks behind architectural projects. The installation is part of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It is on display from September 14th to November 23rd. The project is designed and developed by the Interface Design team of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. At the Biennale, mæve connects the entries of the Everyville student competition and puts them into the larger context of MACE content and metadata. By placing physical project cards on an interactive surface, users can explore the presented projects, embedded in an organic network of associated projects, people and media.
The installation consists of an interactive surface and a large projection area. While users are interacting with the contents of the installation on the interactive surface, the network and the media files are displayed on the large projection. The ten winning projects from the Everyville student competition are represented as physical cards. If a card is placed on the interactive surface, a contextual space is opened around the project. Within this space, media files, related projects and keywords are visualized. When a second card is placed on the surface, the space turns into a network displaying similarities between the projects. In addition to the Everyville cards, the installation also contains inspirational projects from the MACE repositories. These projects are also represented by project cards and enable the visitors to connect the Everyville projects to MACE contents. Furthermore, as the interaction with the cards is not limited to the one person, entire groups and teams can explore the content together.
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm Here’s an hour-long explanation of Emotiv’s mind-computer interface:
Here’s a clip of the Prototype This team turning this into a car rage-monitoring system, and here’s a Wired magazine (mini-)review from last issue. We’ve covered this before, but sounds like Emotiv is now finally close to a release.
Their developer section is here. Has anybody gotten their hands on one of these who would care to share?
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm 
I was doing some browsing on Etsy and came across Hikje’s shop. There’s something very appealing about the angular, cartoony offerings therein. I especially love these twine-wrapped cranes (wrecking balls?) built from string and cardboard.
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm 
Planning on being a pirate, and need a wooden leg but are attached to your own?
Overview
Costume: Pirate (Corporate Pirate in this case - I’ll be wearing a suit and taking over other companies! Arrrgh!)
Objective: Create a wooden leg, because I currently don’t have one but it would look good on a…
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm 
MAKE man-muse, pal, and contributing editor Mister Jalopy has a show and talk coming up at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA. On Saturday (Nov 1) there’s an opening reception from 1PM - 3PM and a talk at 2PM. The show will run until November 15th.
Mister Jalopy offers “possible reasons for attending my gallery show:”
* See Stuff - World’s Largest Ipod, the Compact Childhood Museum and the Urban Guerilla Movie House will all be at the gallery. This is the first time that they have all left my shop.
* Eat- Cheese and crackers
* Talk - I will be presenting a new talk. Have you seen my talks before? Well, this one is different. My talks evolve and this is a brandy-newish talk that steals stuff from prior presentations - enhanced with new stuff.
* Meet - We can chat.
* New Stuff - I will have a couple new things at the show.
* Interesting Curios - See the geeked Japanese Mooks that visited my shop!
* Opinions - I have them.
* Interesting People - I know some; they may attend.
* Free - That should have been at the top!
Mister Jalopy Gallery Show - Talk and Opening
Info at College of the Canyons
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm 
As a college student in super-sunny California, it isn’t surprising that flip-flops are my personal footwear of choice. I have nothing against sports sandals, crocs, shoes, your favorite shoe-like apparatus, etc. but thong-shaped flip-flops are ever so convenient and they give me the classy flip-flo…
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm 
Craft Leftovers shows us how to use bits and scraps of yarn to crochet this handy basket, which you can then felt and use for all kinds of storage and display needs.
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Oct 30th, 2008
Blogsnapper at 04:10 pm The “Interactive Mirror” is an interesting research project that combines a mirror with a touchscreen interface to produce a novel way of interacting with your own image. Think “Minority Report” meets “Multi-Touch” mixed with a bit of fairy tale like interaction. This would probably be perfect for a halloween spook house.
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Oct 30th, 2008
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More product picks from the Maker Shed @ Maker Faire special prices. The week is winding down so if you’ve been pondering a purchase be sure not to miss out!
Here’s the deal - Enter in MAKER to get 10% off any of these books (or anything in the Maker Shed right now) if you spend more than $80 enter in FAIRE after and get free shipping on orders over $80.00 (Post discount of course), either of these codes will work independently from another as well as together.
Maker’s Notebook - From the creators of Make & Craft Magazine comes the Maker’s Notebook. Put your own ideas, diagrams, calculations & notes down in these 150 pages of engineering graph paper. We’ve also included 20 bonus pages of reference material, from useful stuff like electronics symbols, resistor codes, weights and measures, basic conversions and more, to really useful stuff like the amount of caffeine in different caffeinated beverages and how to say “Hello, World!” in various computer languages. The covers of this hardcover book are printed in cyan “Maker” blue with a white grid debossed front and back. Grab one today!
Maker Faire Hoodie
Super heavyweight fleece pullover hoodie. This high quality SportTek sweatshirt from Port Authority is all you need to take the
edge off those cold nights and days. This sweatshirt rocked the Maker Faire!
Maker Bundle #1
We’ve had several neat projects over the years, and we’re proud that Solarbotics has created a cool bundle kit to provide parts for completing them. In this great bundle you’ll find what you need to build the Mousey (Make Issue #02), Trimit (Issue #06), SolarRoller (Issue #06), and Beetlebot (#12). Get this bundle and save over $20 compared to buying these kits separately.
Make: Project Tin - Perfect for many electronics projects, this mint tin is branded with our Make motto, “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It”.
We even took out those pesky mints! Get ‘em while they last and send us your project photos!
MAKE: Void Your Warranty T-Shirt
New Colors - White - Olive Green - Royal Blue!
MAKE: Void your warranty, violate a user agreement, fry a circuit, blow a fuse, poke an eye out…
Available in 8 colors and more sizes! Also available in Womans.
Add $1 per each upsize.
Don’t forget, use the coupon code “MAKER” to get 10% off any of the above picks, if you spend more than $80 (after discount) enter the additional code “FAIRE” and score free shipping to boot, either of these codes will work by themselves or together.
Nothing here float yer boat? Check back tomorrow when we’ll be showing off another roundup of fine Shed products.
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