Out in the Open: The Free Tools That Let You Hack Your Whole Life | Wired Enterprise Tessel, a piece of open source hardware that lets anyone hack their home. Photo: Technical Machine Imagine a home speaker system that identifies everyone in the room and plays only the music they wanna hear. Tapping into tiny RFID chips installed on people’s cell phones, this system would pinpoint each person’s Facebook profile, parse their music tastes by way of the streaming music service Spotify, and create a playlist on the fly. And as new people enter the room and others leave it, the system would adjust this playlist accordingly. What you imagine is here today. ‘We wanted to create a platform for building socially connected machines.’ — Tim Ryan The core of their project is a custom-designed circuit board called the Tessel, and they’ve now “open sourced” the board’s designs — made them free for anyone to use — giving people everywhere the power to fashion their own Tessel boards and use it as the basis for whatever new-age contraption they like. The Technical Machine team.
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3D Scanning Two Types of ObjectsThe MakerBot® Digitizer™ Desktop 3D Scanner is an amazing tool that quickly turns things in your world into 3D models you can modify, improve, share, and 3D print. Scannable objects fall into two categories: Ready-to-Scan and Prep-to-Scan. In this post, we’ll help you determine which category an object’s in, and share some expert tips and tricks to help you create the best possible 3D models. Ready-to-Scan A Ready-to-Scan object is exactly what it sounds like. Ready-to-Scan objects are: Matte: A matte-like or dull surface texture creates a sharp visible line that the MakerBot Digitizer’s camera can easily detect. Opaque: Things that aren’t translucent or transparent will scan better. Single Colored: Light colored and red surfaces are best for reflecting the lasers back to the camera. Multiple Colors: If an object’s surface has more than one color, choose the setting in MakerBot® MakerWare™ for Digitizer that represents the object’s darkest color.
Dança de salão Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. Dança de salão. Dança de salão refere-se a diversos tipos de danças executadas por um par de dançarinos. As danças de salão são praticadas socialmente, como forma de entretenimento, integração social e competitivamente como Desporto. Alguns dos tipos de dança de salão foram desenvolvidas no Brasil, como, por exemplo: o forró (do Nordeste), o samba de gafieira, o maxixe entre outras. A Festa Junina tem origem nos antepassados das cortes reais na Europa, tomando chá na corte do Rei Luís XIV, na França. A dança de casal foi levada pelos colonizadores para as diversas regiões das Américas, onde deu origem às muitas variedades, à medida que se mesclava às formas populares locais: tango na Argentina, maxixe, que deu origem ao samba de gafieira, no Brasil, a habanera, que deu origem a diversos ritmos cubanos, como a salsa, o bolero, a rumba etc. No Brasil, os ritmos mais praticados, são oito, tanto nos bailes quanto nas escolas especializadas. Tango.
Scanadu's Medical Tricorder Will Measure Your Vital Signs In Seconds It was less than a year ago that we first wrote about Scanadu's ambitions of building a Star Trek-worthy medical tricorder--a handheld device that can quickly record vital signs and diagnose diseases. At the time, co-founder Misha Chellam estimated that a prototype tricorder would be ready by the end of 2012. This week, the NASA-Ames Research Center-based startup, announced that it will have a prototype that meets that deadline. The Scanadu SCOUT is incredibly easy to use--just raise the handheld device (connected by Bluetooth to a smartphone) to your temple, and wait 10 seconds for it to scan your vital signs, including temperature, ECG, SPO2, heart rate, breathing rate, and pulse transit time (that helps measure blood pressure). The device, which will retail for under $150, was surprisingly difficult to build. Think about it: When you take your blood pressure, it’s usually with a cuff on your arm. "We really want to show people their health stream.
ecoLogicStudio's BIO-URBAN Design Lab in the Sonoran desert, Arizona | Local-Eyes! | 2, part 1 | Urbanista Abandoned mining infrastructure in the Copper Corridor, Arizona. © BIO Urban Design LAB – UCL. Arcosanti Foundation, view of the pottery workshop, Arizona. © BIO Urban Design LAB – UCL. The BIO-URBAN Design Lab, led by Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero – founders of ecoLogicStudio and leaders of the BIO- Urban Design Research Cluster of the MArch Urban Design programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL – embarked in a research trip to the Sonoran desert in Arizona in March 2014. Microclimate morphologies relates to craters: NIDUS team: microclimatic morphologies – projected scenario of emerging biotopes. © BIO Urban Design LAB – UCL. Cosanti Foundation – earth cast concrete vault – Scottsdale, Arizona.© BIO Urban Design LAB – UCL. Biosphere2 – Forest Biome, near Tucson, Arizona. © BIO Urban Design LAB – UCL. Biosphere 2, Arizona. The desert is commonly understood as anti-urban. Meteor Crater – agent based model of climatic responsive ground-works, © BIO Urban Design LAB – UCL.
Makerbot présente un scanner 3D "grand public" pour l'impression 3D C'est encore beaucoup trop cher pour être réellement accessible au grand public, mais le temps et la concurrence aidant, le prix pourrait bientôt devenir attractif. Makerbot, le leader mondial de l'impression 3D pour les particuliers et petites entreprises, vient de lancer son premier scanner d'objets 3D. Vendu 1400 dollars, le Makerbot Digitizer est une version miniature d'un scanner 3D classique, qui associe un plateau tournant et deux lasers, dont la lumière est réfléchie vers un capteur CMOS de 1,3 mégapixels. Le Digitizer peut scanner des objets mesurant jusqu'à 20,3 x 20,3 cm, avec une résolution de 0,5mm (ce qui n'est pas très précis lorsque l'on sait qu'une imprimante 3D de base est aujourd'hui capable d'imprimer à 0,1mm de précision). Les modèles ainsi scannés pourront alors être partagés sur Thingiverse, gérée par Makerbot, ou sur d'autres plateformes d'hébergement de fichiers STL.
Cover Story: Daft Punk | Features Daft Punk started working on Random Access Memories in 2008, playing almost everything on their own and making loops, just like they had done before. But it didn't feel right. “It became clear that we were limited by our own disability to hold a groove the way we wanted for more than eight or 16 bars,” admits Bangalter. “Something we love about disco is the idea of playing the same groove over and over again—your brain can tell it's not a sample that's being replayed.” So they enlisted technically masterful instrumentalists (the kind of guys who grace the covers of magazines like Modern Drummer and Bass Musician), put different combinations of players together, explained their ideas, laid down sheet music or hummed melodies, and collected tons of original recordings on analog tape. To that end, they would often meet with these collaborators beforehand to talk about the ideas and inspirations behind the album before even stepping inside of a studio. Additional reporting by Michael Renaud
3D Pictures | NVIDIA NVIDIA 3D VISION® lets you view immersive 3D pictures on your PC using the built-in NVIDIA 3D Vision photo viewer. The photo viewer is automatically installed with the 3D Vision driver and supports viewing stereoscopic Multi Picture Object (MPO), JPEG (JPS), and PNG (PNS) file formats. You can also make some basic photo corrections. Please consult the 3D Vision Photo Viewer user guide for more information on viewing, editing, and correcting 3D picture files. Download 3D Picture Slideshows NVIDIA has created 3D PowerPacks slideshows for you to download and enjoy right now: To run any of the above slideshows, follow these instructions: Make sure you have all the necessary NVIDIA 3D Vision hardware and software installed. 3DVISIONLIVE.COM As a 3D Vision user, you have access to the 3DVisionLive.com community, where you can share your own 3D photos online or simply browse though thousands of 3D pictures that have been uploaded by other users.
Clippet | Open Your Ears To The News Project Manager Gabi’s hopped around the media industry, turning her hand to any number of mediums and roles. After her Journalism BA in Sydney she set off for Amsterdam, where she helped run Amsterdam’s best known music radio station, Red Light Radio. When she got wind of an audio news app that was going revolutionize the industry, it was something she knew she had to be part of. Editor in Chief and Co-founder Specialty? Favourite clippet? Last meal: I've never eaten at Nando's, so perhaps I'll try something from there. CEO and Co–Founder Grace spent much of her time at UCL locked away in the radio studio but managed to do some writing on the side – churning out English essays, editing a music mag and penning the odd article. Co–Founder Business school drop out turned media junkie, James wants to get young people back in to news by providing a channel that suits their lifestyles. Head of Production Producer - Age 24 Favourite clippet? Last meal: Mac Rice (truuuuust me) Ideal party date?
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BBC Blogs - About the BBC - Introducing the first version of BBC Sounds 2 Nikon D90 cameras, 3D portraits | Nikon Rumors Alex Fry and Jamie Nimmo will have a 3D photography exhibition "Stereo Portrait Project" in Sydney Australia on 27th May (scroll down for the full press release). Here is the technical background: For the Stereo Portrait Project, we used off the shelf hardware and software, from the cameras, lighting, triggering, post production to the printing of the book. We shot using Nikon d90's with shutter cables connected to an RF trigger. The Lighting system was three Nikon sb900's, one connected via pc sync in a soft box, the other two optically slaved. A custom camera rig was needed to put the cameras as close together as possible, roughly emulating the distance between the human eyes. To synchronize the cameras we used an RF trigger split out to two preload shutter release cables. The image pairs were then sorted using Aperture before being exported into Nuke, where final tweaks were made before combining them into the final Anagylphic 3D images. Press Release: Stereo Portrait Project
How the sound in your home affects your mood - BBC Future Michael Fowler, a member of the audio communication group at the Technical University of Berlin, approaches aural architecture differently. He is inspired by open spaces that have unique sonic features, such as such as Japanese gardens that feature dry stone waterfalls that tinkle like real waterfalls, by clever positioning of water features out of sight. He studies what he calls “exemplary” sound spaces in an attempt to find out what makes them special, be it geometric forms or the arrangement of materials in a room. He wants to use this to create an algorithm or a computational routine, a sort of digital aural archetype, which architects can use when designing buildings or other public spaces. “Using this, you can produce this type of exemplary space, and they may exist in very different media, but their actual structure, the relationship between sound and space, will be common between all of them,” says Fowler. Buildings, however, don’t exist in isolation.