this is the hotness, over 1,000 leds make a 3d cube which shows severely low-res video.
this project is an exercise in representing the real world with leds arranged in a cube. using video as the input, the computer takes the image, reconstructs the data and displays it in the cube.
i’m going to drop them a note and see if i get a how-to cooking, this could actually make tv watchable again.
the linksys nslu2 is a fun thing to hack around with, not only can you change the firmware and do things like telnet to it, but with this guide it can act as an itunes server and stream music to any of your computers running itunes.
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okay, so i realize there’s not too much hackyness in this hack. it’s basically googles, fresnel lens, enclosure and a video source–then strapped to ones head in an uncool way.
all that said, i have a lot of things around here that can play video which are a lot smaller and lighter, so i think this is the start of a cool project….stay tuned.
okay, so here’s my idea. i’ll use a portable media as the lcd for this “do it yourself” lcd projector. even if it’s not the best quality, i really don’t mind, i’m going to do make a little art installation here at hack central. think it’ll work?
using an etch-a-sketch is hard, hooking it up to a mouse might seem harder, but in the end, likely more appropriate and accurate. here comes the electr-o-sketch–hack a mouse to control and draw on the classic and ever present etch-a-sketch.
using just a cd case, you can make a clear hard drive, well, actually it’s a window to see in to a hard drive. the cool thing about this is–if you have a case mod that lets you see in to the pc, you can do this hack up, light it up and get a cool view of the hard drive heads writing.
there are a few reports floating around that suggest that bittorrent is 35% of the internet’s traffic, which seems like bs, regardless, if you do use bittorrent here are some helpful hints on configuring your router to get the best download speeds.
also here’s how to configure an apple airport extreme base station (aebs) and apple macintosh computer for firewall port forwarding. the apple airport extreme base station includes a built-in firewall that will decrease your bittorrent download speeds unless you enable port forwarding to your mac.
