Raspberry Pi with RGB-Pixels and node.js
For quite some time I had my Raspi lying around. And some RGB Pixels as well. So it was about time to bring them together. The last couple of days I built a web interface that I can use to control my pixels. That’s more a technical demo, rather than something useful. But I learned ...
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The Almost Useless Machine
We all know, we should use more renewable energy. Here is my contribution. Use solar power if you want to cut 20mm wooden rods. And plan ahead because it may take a while. This little machine uses a so called solar engine to drive the motor. This solar engine is able to collect tiny amounts ...
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Home Sweet Home
In July Jeremy Abbett of Makers and Company came over and we discussed, what would be a cool project for Google’s Creative Sandbox event in Berlin. Finally we settled with “Home Sweet Home”, a Google Latitude Arduino driven Lamp. The idea is, that your kids at home have a hanging lamp that tells them how ...
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Making cheap panoramas
Every day on my way to the office I walk by this self rotating advertising pillar. Why not using it for fun?
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Battery Adapter for Canon Powershot SX200
Last year I bought a Canon PowerShot SX200 on ebay. I wanted to play a bit with CHDK, the Canon Hack Development Kit to make some timelapse things. Problem was, the battery would hold only up for 2 hours or so. Even worse, the camera has no power jack to attach a power supply. The ...
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The Indestructible Billboard
In March Marcus of Interactive Matter and I helped Publicis to build an interactive billboard for Evoc. Evoc makes backpacks with protectors, called LITESHIELD. The protector is used to absorb a good portion of an impact in case of an accident. So we were asked to build a billboard with an included backpack and a ...
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The 2 Euros Machine
In January Kolle Rebbe, a german agency, asked if I could help them with their project. The idea was to have an interactive ad poster to collect money for Misereor, a german relief organization. The campaign is named “Mit 2โฌ viel bewegen”, which means something like “getting things moving with 2โฌ”. You would donate a ...
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Der Kritzler
In May I moved into a new office with the great guys of The Future of Everything. The office has really nice big windows and we thought about what we could do with them. I remembered hektor, this super cool 2D drawing machine. What if that thing could draw directly onto the window? So, here ...
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Audi Fan Messenger
Almost a year ago Martin came to me and asked me, if would like to join him on a cool project. His idea was to put a LED POV into a real race car. Of course I wanted! Concept Every race event attracts a lot of fans. Martin’s idea was to integrate the fans into ...
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Soldering is Easy
Soldering is easy. It realy is. If you are still in doubt, head over to mightyohm.com, where you can find a really nice comic on how to solder, done by my good friends Jeff Keyzer and Mitch Altman. Best of all, it’s totally open source! Links Soldering is easy as PDF
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Light Stencils
After reading about light stencils at DIY Photography I was sure I had to try that. In short, you use a flash to illuminate a printout while taking a long exposure picture.
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Xeyes in Processing
Do you remember, when you first started your X and stared at Xeyes? Aaaah, those were the days. I wanted to have Xeyes in Processing to have it as an example of some lines of code that could be easily integrated into an interactive demo or the like. So I thought, ok, that’s quite easy, ...
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