Posts Tagged ‘geek’
I like giant helpful tables
July 22, 2009
Within the MIT media lab, through four doors and up three flights of stairs stands a great table. Roughly 6×10 feet of mesmerizing tactile phantasmagoric construction, the MemTable by creator Seth Hunter is indeed real and highly prone to the continuous company of men peering into it’s depths. I got to take part in a user study [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: collaborative, geek, interactive, OtherComments (1)
Bring Your Own Robot Night Got Brought
June 4, 2009
Fun night tonight- set up shop at True Grounds near Davis Sq. and invited hacker/maker friends to join me in working on projects- Jimmie made some LED throwies, Brett cooked the rug a bit with his hacked toaster and Gideon showed us all up with his wax etching printer! I brought the pieces of crybot [...]
2009 | Dorkbot | Tags: collaborative, Dorkbot, geek, robotComments (3)
Playing With A Creepy Cave Crab
May 23, 2009
CCC Play Video A while ago I was the self-appointed minion to Jimmie Rodgers’ creepy cave crab project for Willoughby & Baltic’s Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. as you can see from this movie the crabs are indeed creepy and crabby and liked the dark. [A single hex schmitt trigger [...]
2009 | Uncategorized | Tags: geek, interactive, led, Other, photocell, robot, sound artComments (4)
$35 Gets You This!
May 17, 2009
Successful spoils from MIT’s Swapfest today: Some stuff strange [vintage Burton-esque rake and the ugliest heat-sink ever] Some stuff questionably fun [Hermes 811 calculator w/ vacuum tubing + Heathkit ‘color generator’] Some stuff useful [a real clamp! and a hand-powered drill to replace my Dremel in case power goes out] Some stuff that [...]
