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cupcake makes a break for it
this cupcake was getting tired of the same old baker's dozen, so it did what every well-frosted pastry would; it made a break for it.
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the lifesize mousetrap in action
not the best video in the world; a little janky and I missed some of the safe falling at the very end, but you can hear it thud. that's a metal skeleton man that dives into the yellow bucket at the end. not the best video in the world; a little janky and I missed some of the safe falling at the very end, but you can hear it thud. that'... more
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Taking a break, watching Current TV
Rest your feet and check out Current TV at Maker Faire.
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BubbleGum Music
UC Berkeley's Hannas Hesse and Andrew Mcdermid show current tv a peek into their underground workshop where electronic beats creep through the hallways.
Their invention, a bubblegum ball activated drum sequencer, shows just how tangible the binary language can be. UC Berkeley's Hannas Hesse and Andrew Mcdermid show current tv a peek into their underground workshop where electronic beats creep thr... more -
A Techie's Paradise
Maker Faire is a breeding ground for everyone who enjoys inventing and crafting all kinds of homemade gadgets.
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Laser Graffiti!
Draw on bigass buildings-- from Make Magazine.
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Students unveil eco-product prototypes
The assignment was wide open: Design something based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle, and develop it into a prototype product. The results ranged from simple mechanical devices to complex electronic machines, but all served that central purpose in original ways.
To meet the challenge, seven teams of 18 students in this year's 2.009 Product Engineering Processes class, taught by David Wallace, came up with a wide variety of ingenious ideas, which they presented last week at a packed session attended by about 150 outside engineers and product developers. The assignment was wide open: Design something based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle, and develop it into a prototype p... more -
Coloring black and white photos automatically
Colorization of photos using optimization is what they call it.
Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task.
In this paper we present a simple colorization method that requires neither precise image segmentation, nor accurate region tracking. Our method is based on a simple premise: neighboring pixels in space-time that have similar intensities should have similar colors. We formalize this premise using a quadratic cost function and obtain an optimization problem that can be solved efficiently using standard techniques. In our approach an artist only needs to annotate the image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully colorized image or sequence. We demonstrate that high quality colorizations of stills and movie clips may be obtained from a relatively modest amount of user input.
Thank Make. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/colorizati... Colorization of photos using optimization is what they call it. ... more -
Are you social?
With this t-shirt, a project by German media artist Aram Bartholl, you can proclaim your social networking cache by checking off all of the web 2.0 allegiances you are a member of. Then just wear the shirt, walk around your hometown and mingle with the electronic elite. Pretty swanky.
Are You Social?
Source: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/how_social... With this t-shirt, a project by German media artist Aram Bartholl, you can proclaim your social networking cache by checking off all o... more -
Tesla coil Super Mario Duet
Steve Ward and Jeff Larson constructed these two solid-state Tesla coils, then programmed them to play the Super Mario Brothers theme.
Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software. Steve Ward and Jeff Larson constructed these two solid-state Tesla coils, then programmed them to play the Super Mario Brothers theme.... more -
Make: A Rubik's cube from dice and magnets
Very cool and fun stuff from Make: for the geek in you.
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