d’Art Souterrain (French for Underground Art) does a new take on the public space playable piano keyboard. This installation is located in one of the under ground pedestrian tunnel of Place Ville Marie in Montreal. Their objective was to take a create a space where people could interact in what is otherwise an area only used by people to… Read More »
Lunar Eclipse Montage 12212010, originally uploaded by mockba1_1999. Just in case you missed it or it was too cloudy in your area, Flickr user mockba1_1999 uploaded some beautiful photos of the lunar eclipse.
Opening Week, originally uploaded by makerbot. Here is the Drum Kit Kit AI (right side of photo) available at the BotCave store by the folks over at MakerBot. From the MakerBot blog: MakerBot Botcave Store Dec 2, 2010 MakerBot has opened a small popup retail space at our headquarters in Brooklyn.
This video was made by placing an iPhone into a laser cutter with the camera rolling. Normally you don’t see the laser beam but in this case the red visible beam used to aim the laser was turned on. The phone didn’t get burnt since the “safety” cover was open which stops the cutting laser from firing.
I was asked about the Drum Kit Kit AI’s response time so I decided to test it: On an oscilloscope one channel was connected to the piezo lead coming from a drum pad and the other was connected to the MIDI out of the Drum Kit. The time delay was about 400us – 700us, this is less the… Read More »
NASA Technology Could Aid in Interpretation of Mammograms, originally uploaded to Flickr by NASA Goddard Photo and Video. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is using the same imaging technology used for space exploration to help improve medical imagery. Caption: The left image shows an original mammogram before MED-SEG processing. The image on the right, with region of… Read More »
The new Drum Kit Kit AI is here. The first half of the video uses the Serial to MIDI converter software and the last half (@ 41 seconds) uses the MIDI port.
Dice Kit, originally uploaded to Flickr by Spikenzie. Tap-to-roll. One of the coolest electronic dice ever!