Digital Pictures Interactive has created a fantastic example of augmented reality, that you can run in your browser.
As Hack A Day tells us: :“Print out the custom symbol and try it out for yourself in your browser. Augmented reality refers to any mashup that combines computer generated content with a live video stream.”
Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from dpinteractive on Vimeo.
Instructables features a fantastic guide to making your own fabric buttons, perfect for wearable electronics interfaces.
They are made by cutting holes in foam, and sandwiching it between two layers of conductive material.
Over on the great how-to site Instructables, an enterprising chap has created a book entirely using Mechanical Turks, and illustrates how to use them for your own project. Mechanical Turks are a service offered by Amazon, which allows small tasks to be sourced out in an standard way.
The name Mechanical Turk comes from “The Turk”, a chess-playing automaton of the 18th century, which was made by Wolfgang von Kempelen. It toured Europe beating the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this ‘machine’ was not an automaton at all but was in fact a chess master hidden in a special compartment controlling its operations. Likewise, the Mechanical Turk web service allows humans to help the machines of today to perform tasks they aren’t yet suited for.
*The aggregate intelligence of the Big Giant Head works out to be a vast, lowest-common-denominator in parallel system, not a single, super-clever progressive-improvement serial system. For Serial intelligence aggregates try collaborating.
If you don’t care how far I managed to ride, then here’s a picture of a poodle and a unicycle. I tried to find a picture of a poodle on a unicycle, but even the Internet disappoints sometimes.
Otherwise read on for gruelling cycle trek.
Woo. Last night I managed to break my long D70S drought. I hacked together an effective monopod using a piece of bamboo, and some brackets, nuts and bolts from the Photo egg - stood back to admire my handiwork - and then tromped around Newtown and St.Peters taking steadier-than-usual pictures of things. I tend to venture around at night, so having a steady platform is important for nice long exposures. (Also, you get to feel like some kind of druid carrying a staff around.)
Today I headed of to the Nunnery bike co-op to finally finally get a back brake. I’m sure we can all agree on the advantages of a backup brake, that combined with the front can actually stop the combined momentum of a rider and bike at the bottom of a hill.
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.
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