Bottle rocket POV video

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It’s a holiday weekend, and much like you, we’re taking a bit of time to relax and kick back a few drinks while we mingle with friends and family. Obviously, one of the bigger events this weekend plays host to is the fireworks show put on by your city or your drunken neighbors. Roman candle wars aside, have you ever wondered what the 4th of July looked like from the fireworks’ point of … [Read more...]

Sandbox game in a sandbox

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The team at Monobanda have been working on a sandbox game called Mimicry that uses a Kinect to read the terrain of a sandbox. From the teaser video and press release, the eventual goal appears to be controlling both a character in the game and the environment simultaneously. By reading the terrain of the sandbox with a Kinect, the team was able to import that into the game world. The team says … [Read more...]

A Simple Dolly for Time-Lapse Photography

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[Henrique] wrote in to tell us about his time-lapse photography hack. Triggering of the camera is done via CHDK, or Canon Hack Development kit. This experimental kit allows Canon Powershot cameras to run scripts as well as other neat features without permanently changing anything. User scripts for this hack and others can be found here. Once the Camera was set up to take pictures in a … [Read more...]

Robotic Schadenfreude – quadrotor blooper reel

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While quadrotors might just become the killing machines of choice some time in the future, we’re pretty sure it will be awhile before they run amok and wipe humans off the face of the planet, if the following video is any indication. The team over at UPenn’s GRASP Lab film everything they do when it comes to quadrotors for posterity’s sake. When your awesome job consists of directing … [Read more...]