Those of you who have a Sprint Epic 4G can now purchase a Game Gripper for your smartphone.
The Game Gripper is a controller unit that slides over the physical QWERTY keyboard on a number of phones and allows you to play games with a real control pad layout rather than just the awkward keys. [click to continue…]
Check out this crazy looking track. It's called Metropolis II and is a custom build road system that can carry 1,200 cars at a time along with 13 toy trains. Around the tracks is scenery built from Lego.
Each of the 1,200 cars has been custom designed. The track starts by lifting 5 rows of cars up a steep hill and then letting gravity bring them down to the bottom of the track where they get lifted up again. [click to continue…]
The Kinect has once again been made to work as something different to what Microsoft originally intended. This time, the Kinect is used to track a broom handle and with that tracking, displays a lightsaber blade on the screen along with the noises a Star Wars weapon would make.
The Kinect Hack comes from a guy named Yan this time. The software tracks the wooden stick and then real time software makes it glow on screen. [click to continue…]
By combining some Lego parts and a computer, one particular guy has managed to create a system that can scan objects in 3D. These 3D objects can then be exported to use in the LDraw software to be used as parts in Lego projects.
The LEGO 3D scanner was built by Phillipe Hurbaine who took care of the software and Lego building to make this project work. To see it in action, check out the video embedded below. [click to continue…]
The Kinect from Microsoft is proving to be quite a cool hackable toy. The latest hack sees Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson creating a digital puppet.
The system works by capturing movement of a persons arm and hand and then interprets that in to puppet movement which is then projected on to a wall. When a hand is opened the pupped makes noises. [click to continue…]
Since Microsoft [MSFT] launched the Kinect a few weeks back, a number of people have managed to hack in to it and make use of the sensors found within.
This has allowed for a number of neat functions to be made. This next one uses an iRobot Create as well as a Kinect Sensor bar sat on top of it. As the device travels around a room, it maps the data in to a 3D model. The data, as it's collected, is wirelessly sent to a local computer for processing. [click to continue…]
If you want to hack your Microsoft Kinect then check out the how to guide found over here.
Although the folk hacking it seem to make it look easy, a quick glance at the steps might show something different. Either way, take a look and see what you think. [click to continue…]
The Microsoft Kinect has proved over the last week, to be a little more versatile than just connecting up to the Xbox 360 and playing games.
Thanks to the technology inside and some smart users out there, some crazy effects have been created with the Kinect. The latest comes from Youtube user okreylos who managed to combine the color and depth image created by Kinect in to a single image. Once combined, the live video can be manipulated in real time to rotate around a person or any object. [click to continue…]
The open source drivers for the Microsoft Kinect were opened up a few days ago. Along with this, some unique ways to use the Kinect have started to show up.
One of these is the Minority Report style interface that can use the Kinect camera to detect movement of your hands and interpret that in to movement of objects on to a screen. [click to continue…]
The video demonstration below shows the Tablet Connect for iPhone. The table computer is a 58 inch capacitive touchscreen laying flat. It has a dock connector built in and supposedly allows users to open up an app on the iPhone and have the iPhone pushed over to the table computer.
The demonstration shows the app loading up on the phone, and then the screen being transferred to the table where the photos app is loaded up. [click to continue…]
This particular Legend of Zelda NES cartridge has been converted in to an external hard drive with a 1TB capacity.
The external drive has a USB connector allowing you to connect it to a Mac or PC. When connected you'll be able to transfer any files over to it like you would with any other external drive. [click to continue…]
The MakerLegoBot is a robot made of Lego that is capable of printing objects with Lego bricks.
The system was designed and built by the team at BattleBricks and uses Mindstorms NXT computer (three of them) to control the printer. A feed mechanism can be found attached to the side of the device that has the job of holding many bricks which are then grabbed as needed by the system. The bricks are then pushed in to the appropriate plans. The plans themselves are fed in to the NXTs via USB. [click to continue…]