During the Winter Show, instead of printing cards for my project I offered to send people SMS messages with information about it. It was a manual process, though, requiring me to send the message…
Pilotwiings: Reality is my final project for Networked Objects. The goal of the project is to provide an alternate control mechanism for flying an indoor remote-controlled airplane using the…
HelioHopper is a small helicopter whose short “hopping” style of flight is powered by solar energy. It was developed with Oscar Torres, Theresa Ling, Drew Burrows, and myself.
HelioHopper’s goal…
May
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Japanese Impersonators Re-Enacting “We Are the World. | Words. I has none.
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I’m an excellent spellar | This is almost as good as the Get a brain, Moran guy.
May
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I purchased a NeoCube as soon as I saw this video…which was before it got picked up by Gizmodo and everyone else. It’s a cool toy…216 spherical magnets. I’ve been playing with it all night, and I have to say it’s frustrating as HELL. For the life of me I can’t seem to get the spheres to form a cube. I think their polarity makes it so that they must be aligned PERFECTLY to achieve this effect. I sometimes get close, but the mass of spheres instantly realigns itself into a twisted mess all the time. Still, it’s a fun to just fidget with…
Apr
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While brainstorming for final project ideas for my Art & The Brain class, I was reminded of this excellent February 2005 clip of Stephen Colbert blasting the language of art criticism in a piece about The Gates.
“We created a way to browse and search beer menus in New York City so you never have to wonder which bars serve your favorite beers. We also keep a list of the best upcoming craft beer events. We…
Apr
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The Freeway Ride - “If You Rode a Bike You’d Be Home by Now”
Great piece of (crazy) bike civil disobedience in LA.
Apr
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Singapore Airlines - Suites Class
Singapore Airlines has introduced the ultimate (non-private aircraft) flying experience with their “Suites” class, based on the humongous Airbus A380. I’m glad they’re making use of that ridiculous amount of cabin space in a different way than the predictable cattle-car configuration that most A380 operators will use. Not that I’ll ever get to experience it.
“Using a complex array of perforations, light passing through the pavilion’s surface produces shifting patterns, which transform into the legible text of a poem.
The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice. During summer solstice, the poem will contain the theme of ‘new life’. During winter solstice, the poem will be on ‘reflection and the passing of time.’”
“A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your…
Apr
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PilotWiings: Reality - Interface Complete!
My PilotWiings: Reality project’s interface is complete. It displays the wiimote orientation and control settings for the PalmZ. Flight commands will be transmitted via serial communication to an Arduino microcontroller that will interpret the controls and translate them to the 17 bit IR messages that the PalmZ expects. It will then broadcast the commands via an array of IR LEDs, allowing the PalmZ to be flown via wiimote!
