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This telepresence upgrade lets an employee take part in the office from more than four thousand kilometers away. It's an upgrade of their previous setup which used a laptop on a rotating platform to add a bit of control to the video conferencing experience. But all that original version could do was swivel, this one lets you drive your virtual self around for fifteen hours between battery … [Read more...]
[Per] is replacing his car stereo with a Nexus 7 tablet. It's a great modification to add GPS, navigation, and a good music player, but [Per] wanted to pause his tunes and tell the tablet to go to sleep with an NFC tag. This means building a an NFC tag he can turn on and off, an interesting problem to say the least. The easiest way to do this is with a CMOS switch, but a chip like a 74HC4066 … [Read more...]
When we're trying to get a relatively complex project to work we often end up with twenty windows open. When this happens we're usually referencing multiple data sheets, webpages, and trying to write code that the same time. We've seen people with two or three monitors to alleviate the situation (often called a battlestation), but the we're cheap and can't justify buying more displays just for … [Read more...]
We don't remember hearing about the One Laptop Per Child initiative distributing tablet computers but apparently a couple of shipments were distributed to rural communities in Ethiopia. The problem one might think of in this scenario is that the literacy rate in the two test villages was basically zero. But that's exactly the population targeted with thr technology. The tablets were loaded with a … [Read more...]
Making computers interact with physical objects is a favorite of the HCI gurus out there, but these builds usually take the form of image recognition of barcodes or colors. Of course there are new near field communication builds coming down the pipe, but [Andrea Bianchi] has figured out an easier way to provide a physical bridge between computer and user. He's using magnets to interact with a … [Read more...]
As released, the Nexus 7 tablet includes a 1.2 Megapixel front-facing camera. Even though the camera supports taking pictures at a resolution of 1280 x 960, recording video is limited to a paltry 480p resolution. It turns out the inability to record HD 720p video isn't a hardware limitation; engineers at either Google or Asus simply didn't bother telling the Nexus 7 how to record in … [Read more...]
License plate tablet rack [Hunter Davis] used an old license plate as a tablet stand. It loops around the leg of his laptop table and has a cutout for the power cord of the tablet. More power power wheels It may look stock, but this power wheels is hiding a new frame, motors, and tires. You won't see it in the Power Wheels Racing Series, but it is a ton of fun for this lucky … [Read more...]
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