I’ve had my Nexus 7 for just over a week now and I’ve got to say, it’s the best Android tablet experience I’ve used yet. My most recent Android tablet was the Asus Transformer Prime (which I returned because of lackluster performance). The Nexus 7 comes with Android 4.1 (aka “Jellybean”) which furthers my opinion…
Finally, after months of waiting, I received my Raspberry Pi: I had pre-ordered it (from Element 14) in March and it finally shipped this week. What is it? It’s touted as being a $35, credit card(ish) sized Linux based computer. The entire computer is what you see in the above photo (it doesn’t currently even…
I’ve been interested in painting with light for almost as long as I’ve been interested in photography. Recently, there has been a number of projects that have popped up where people are taking light painting to a whole new level and I really wanted to try it myself…especially after seeing the incredible Light Scythe project….
Last night I finally caved and picked up an ASUS Transformer Prime TF201-B1-GR and the mobile keyboard dock for it. Yes, I actually bought a non-Apple tablet (that thinks it’s a laptop). I’ll wait while you soak that in. After seeing both Derek and Morten, in the span of about 6 hours (ironically on the…
It’s no secret that most geeks are hard to buy for…myself included. I figured a list of fun things you’re not going to find at the local department store might be useful…with plenty of lead time to buy them online. In no particular order: Lomokino & Lomoscope (~$100, Lomography) I love the concept of this…
A while back, I participated in my first Kickstarter project by ‘funding’ something called a Gameduino: It’s an add on module (aka a shield) for the Arduino hardware platform. It basically gives the Arduino the missing bits of electronics to be a self contained 8-bit videogame platform including VGA and sound ports to connect to…
Recently I printed Stephen Colbert’s head on my MakerBot (in ‘John Boehner orange’ as someone in the comments on Flickr pointed out): and made a timelapse of the nearly 2 hour print process: and then Cory Doctorow blogged about it on BoingBoing.net (thanks to Darren for submitting it). Which then lead to my “A few…
I’ve had my MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printer up and running for a few weeks now and thought I’d document some of the things that I’ve learned during this process. Hopefully these items will help someone else who’s interested in the world of 3D printing. Keep in mind these thoughts are based on my experience assembling…
I’ve setup a UStream channel for my MakerBot so you can see what I’m currently printing with it. Can’t promise it will always be on but will try to record interesting prints and live stream as much as possible. If you have any suggestions for better/free ‘webcasting/recording’ software that is Mac compatible, drop a comment…
I’m a little late to the party but I was recently given a HP TouchPad by the nice folks at HP Canada and stumbled across an interesting app today called Preware. In the WebOS world (which runs the TouchPad and other Palm/HP smartphones) it’s the equivalent of Cydia for iOS devices which basically allows you…