Now this is bad news

Playing with the flying toy, I found out that there is no potentiometer to control the power of the output. The only signal that the receiver mounted on the disc receives is a on/off message. I have tried to twik the output voltage, but it only becomes a lower emitted message from the antenna.
So I […]

Vivisecting the flying toy

Finally my flying toy has arrived, I had to buy it from an online gadget website, as we don’t get them here yet. After playing a bit with it (it is fun, I had to force myself to stop), I opened the radio controller to see what was inside. I post the pictures here and […]

vvvv what?

Quoted from their website: “vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.”
In the website also some tutorials on how to interface Arduino with the program.
Read more here: […]

Another supplier of sensors.

Probably used for medical applications, but here is the link: Shopembla

A nice demonstration of sound propagation

An interactive java applet depicting the propagation of sound and its response to reflecting materials.
See it here: Link.

Very quick, the last post for today

A very interesting website, showing all, or almost all website and online applications that offer a developer API.
Here is the link: ProgrammableWeb. It would be nice to interface any of these with processing.

PHILIPS, the simplicity event.

Philips has presented in London the simplicity event, a show where interoperable by humans technologies have been presented to the public. Many of the finished designs did start from concept and are now manufactured and sold to the public. Altough it is not properly phisycal computing I think that is interesting to mention some of […]

Statistics of web traffic

I may use this statistics as the source for my project, as I have not found any reliable source for displaying the world welthfare or the world power consuption.
Here is the link:  Internet Usage Statistics

FreeTTS 1.2! A text synthesizer written in Java!

Not that I know very well how to programm in java, but for any of you interested with this free library, here is the link: FreeTTS 1.2
It is based upon Flite: a small run-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie […]

The day of the tentacle (when technology reaches bad habits)

I know this article is quite old, but I think it deserves attention anyway.
The recent revelations about illegal eavesdropping on American citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency have raised many questions about just what the agency is doing. Although the facts are just beginning to emerge, information that has come to light about the […]