How-to: Networked graffiti wall

posted Oct 2nd 2008 5:05pm by
filed under: classic hacks, how-to, misc hacks

Wondering what we did with our web server on a business card project from last week? It’s powering a giant LED graffiti wall. Animations can be user-submitted using the online designer. You can watch a live feed of user animations as well. The online interface runs on the Google App Engine for maximum scalability and resilience.

In today’s How-to we cover all the ins and outs of building your own networked graffiti wall. Read the rest of this entry »

Notacon 2008: Dropping humanity in non-places

posted Apr 8th 2008 9:34am by
filed under: cons


[Nate Graham] gave a presentation on what he considers ‘new media art’, the convergence of art and technology. He covered quite a few great examples of what new media art is from many categories: a mower that creates pixel art, Cory Arcangel’s famous Super Mario Clouds hack, a whale hunt whose photo capture rate depended on the participant’s heart rate, the bike based SMS printer for protests.

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Gesture laser pointer control

posted Dec 17th 2006 7:02am by
filed under: laser hacks, misc hacks, peripherals hacks


After I linked his basic laser pointer webcam interface the other day, [mnt] sent me this excellent demo of his gesture based laser pointer control. This one works alot like graffiti on the old palm pilots. My question? What does he make when he’s not sick?

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