I now have a 60 meters of used rope to build my next units. Special thanks go out to the great at the City Climbers Club. Once my final mechanical designs are done this week, I will be building again.

I now have a 60 meters of used rope to build my next units. Special thanks go out to the great folks at the City Climbers Club. Once my final mechanical designs are done this week, I will be building again.

Reversed, but it worked, we learnt.

Reversed, but it worked, we learnt.

Reversed, but it worked, we learnt.

The Reference Guide over at mock-up.org is now in working order. I’m still deciding on including or excluding a few of the entries, but currently there are nearly 100 dictionary references and 40 common terms available. This completes my first milestone; from here I’m starting to work on tutorial screencasts together for learning the [...]

Check it out at www.livelyhood.us
Note: forms and links are set up at this time.

In the cat graphing example in chapter 3 as published in the book, the comments say:

// if the sensor value is less than the threshold,// and the previous value was greater, then the cat// just left the matif (prevSensorValue >= threshold) {catOnMat = false;}

According to the second comment, the condition should be “greater,” but actual [...]

In the Chapter 1 Simple Serial code as published in the book says:
// after a quarter of a second, turn the LED on:

It should say

// after a half of a second, turn the LED on:
Thanks to Shigeru Kobayashi for catching it.

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“Mr. Murdoch wants to see the paper take on added urgency and broaden its areas of coverage,” says Marcus Brauchli, the Journal’s top editor. “He’s very engaged in news. He knows what’s going on. He’s got good, strong ideas about journalism.”

“All newspapers are run to make profits. Full stop. I don’t run anything for respectability. The moment I do, I hope someone will come and fire me and get me out of the place — because that’s not what newspapers are meant to be about.” —Rupert Murdoch

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- Yeah, good strong ideas about journalism…evil, greedy, slimy, disgustingly sociopathic ideas.  (In response to http://tinyurl.com/2njecp)

IOGear has a Wireless USB Hub and Adapter they released at the end of last year.
That’s right - turn any regular USB device wireless. Why didn’t I look for this earlier?
It says Mac is not currently supported, but many devices like this work with Mac even if they aren’t officially supported… ?

Finally,after tried so many different ways, I made the helmet opened, equally.I made the helmet opened before, but only one side of it could be opened. In older to make both sides open, I tried several ways, including change the positions of the sever …

Check out large version of image and others at Devin’s page

I took a step back and talked with some friends to get an idea of what my new direction would be. I always wanted to make autonomous instruments or sound generators and I’ve always been fascinated with making small, life-like creatures that can exist anywhere. So, in a couple hours as a test for me [...]

Final Project Proposal for Collective StorytellingI loved the idea of ‘Big stories, little stories’ from this week’s reading.  I feel people who actually go through/witness a bigger story playing out tend to undermine their role/experience. I want to people to think about Big stories that they might be a part of, and then tell me [...]

Tim’s spinning circles! In OpenProcessing! Awesome!

This is a mock-up for a project Stella, Ben Chao and I are working on for our Media Architecture class. It is supposed to simulate the experience of being eaten. The visitor enters the room and is immediately inside a tube made of fabric. As they walk in, they hear noises like churning stomachs and [...]

I created this model in Processing to demonstrate exponential properties of recursion. Click here to see it in motion.

I said I’d get out of Power Point sooner or later.
A pleasant dream of things to come …

I said I’d get out of Power Point sooner or later.
A pleasant dream of things to come …

This is a guy my friend and I met while we were traveling in San Francisco for the spring break. We share the same room, he and his friends are both from German, they have been traveled for 6 months already, and they will keep traveling 6 months more. …

informal tests with Blackberry show much improved response (i’m actually a bit surprised; i would have expected the Blackberry to be engineered to eliminate as much background noise as possible). Sounds lasting over about 1/2 second from what i could tell though were attenuated quite a bit. tests with 250ms per 100 hz [...]

Initial tests with LG8100 cell phone (my old skool phone), recording to WAVs on an Asterisk server. Purpose is to roughly determine usable frequencies via cellphone. Older references on POTS system indicate usable range is 300hz - 3khz;
System uses XP100 card, echo cancellation enabled, no TX/RX gain, 5 seconds of pure (well, [...]

This week we talked about High Dynamic Range photography. You simply take 3 or 5 pictures altering the exposure from under to over exposed in steps. Then you combine the images which will have more information on the shadows and light areas which wou…

If you have made an omnifocus screencast or have some that I can see beyond the Inbox Clippings and the general one that’s on their site, can you let me know in the comments or via email? I’m trying to pull together as many screencasts as I can to finally fully understand its potential.

DJ Food’s “Raiding the 20th Century”: On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original ‘Raiding The 20th Century’ on XFM’s ‘The Remix’ show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it…

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Tou NYC Reunion 2008, originally uploaded by swerdloff.

Camp Manitou alumni - if you weren’t there, you missed a really fantastic event. If you were there, well, then you know. Thanks to Schiff and JD [...]

Drum space is a percussion instrument that transforms environments into drums. Participants are immersed within the space of drums as beats are created from the surrounding surfaces. The audio experience of the space is negotiated by each participant as they add and remove beats from sequences previously constructed by other participants. Will the [...]

So I’ve decided to really dive in into the iPhone Application development for my iPhone Classroom thesis project. What I had up to now was a web version - a prototype of the interface and user interaction. It did not give me the full extent of the iPho…

For my final project, I’d like to try the idea I proposed in class in response to my classmate’s amazing project, Analoguer.
The site isn’t built yet, but this is the email I will send out to a group of 30 friends:
I’d like to invite you to participate in a project I’m doing for a class [...]

The breadboarded monster has finally been turned into a functional prototype!

The lm386 circuit I’d mentioned a bit ago here did the trick, so I just transferred the whole thing to a breadboard and slapped an Atmega168 (bootloaded with Arduino) under it.  The unit has the full mic circuit on top (with mic and warm white [...]

same thing how people question, criticize mainstream media, (this example is sing dao daily, a hongkong based newspaper) by using their collective power on internet, by using tele-presense: cameras, dvs, social network websites, webpages, or even just comments against false and misleading news photos on mainstream or huge media corp.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060103_2.htm
Sing Tao rises to speak up on behalf of the police. There is a website (no URL) prepared by a private citizen that included comments from citizens as well as police officers. Among the comments were by a police officer about the demonstrators: they “used long poles and stripped down iron bars to stab us, they also used slings to fire iron bolts and it was super-painful when we get hit.” The statement about the sling shots was supported by the Hong Kong Police Supervisors Association Vice-President Lau Tat-keung. Lau said that the demonstrators had three years of military service, they wore life vests that can ward off the blows from police truncheons and they used slings to shoot iron bolts. This showed that they came prepared. (Note: You can read more at The Police Stories at WTO).

In the middle of this half-page feature on page A4 of Sing Tao, there is a photo of a man wearing a gas mask and firing off a sling shot. The words at the top left corner of this photo are (in translation): “The anti-WTO demonstrators used powerful slings to shoot iron bolts at the anti-riot police.”

And this is how sing dao daily react to the mass critique.

The following item appeared in a small box on the editorial page (A18) on Thursday, January 5, 2006. I thank a journalist in another newspaper of the Sing Tao group for pointing that out to me.

(In translation) Notice of Clarification: On January 3, our newspaper had a report on page A4 titled “Sling used to fire screw bolts, Police hurt painfully” with which there was a file photo of a Venezuelan demonstrators using a sling. The source of that photo was not noted. A reader has written a letter to point out that this can easily cause misunderstanding. Our newpaper thanks the reader for pointing that out, and we apologize for having caused any midunderstanding.