Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

XIG Update Pushes Wireless Data to Projects

I’m a big fan of the XBee Internet Gateway. I used it for The Networked On Air Light and a personal project called the Ego Ticker. XIG lets you use XBee radios to wirelessly connect your projects to the internet. Previously, your project would request a URL via serial to the XBee radio and the response (i.e. a webpage’s HTML) would be returned via serial. It works for a lot of different types of wireless projects, but it means that you sometimes have to poll for data, which you don’t always want to do. It’s like asking over and over again “are we there yet?” instead of saying “let me know when we get there.”


The latest version of XIG lets you communicate in both directions with your wireless project, meaning you can do away with the pesky polling. Check out the video above to get a quick demo of how to set up XIG push serial data to your project using the iDigi Cloud and also take a look at the project’s wiki to see a few other ways of communicating with your project from the cloud. According to Jordan Husney, iDigi Solutions Architect, the XIG creates a persistant outbound connection to the iDigi Cloud, so you won’t have to monkey around with your router’s settings to get data from the internet to your projects. I have a few projects in mind that this update is perfect for.

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Make: Projects – Guitar Strap Gamepad

 


If you’re playing Rocksmith (and I think you should be), and you’re playing standing up (ditto), you have probably run into the “where do I put the controller” problem. The gamepad is required to navigate the menu system between songs, and if you play in a standing position you have to keep a stool or a table nearby to keep it within easy reach.


This simple mod mounts a spring steel clip to the underside of a standard Xbox 360 controller so you can attach it to your guitar strap. In this position, it is easily accessed with your strumming hand.


 


The steel clip I’m using is a common replacement visor clip for several models of garage door remote. A belt clip fitting, such as Tandy Leather’s 1238-00, should work just as well. The clip is secured to the Xbox battery holder in two ways: first with a short bolt that engages a small hex nut and lockwasher inside the battery holder, and second with a strip of double-sided foam tape that keeps it from rotating about the single bolt.


 


This mod does not affect normal controller operation in any way. The battery holder can still be removed and the batteries changed normally. In this position, the steel clip is inconspicuous and does not interfere with a normal gameplay grip, nor, significantly, with the controller’s resting attitude on a flat surface.


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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The 3D art behind America's great engineering projects

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CNET News Geek Gestalt The 3D art behind America's great engineering projects Daniel Terdiman by Daniel Terdiman February 23, 2012 7:00 AM PST Follow @GreeterDan

With the Historic American Engineering Record, the National Park Service and the Library of Congress are celebrating some of the country's best engineering projects.

A 3D model of the Space Shuttle Discovery, generated from a point cloud of data on the NASA spacecraft.

(Credit:National Park Service/Historic American Engineering Record)

If you're a fan of America's long and storied history of great engineering, the National Park Service has got something for you.

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On Monday, the park service's Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) will unveil a broad collection of 3D imagery of projects like the Space Shuttle Discovery, as well as NASA launching pads, famous bridges, and more. The imagery was created, in part, by using software from Autodesk to generate what are known as "point clouds" of data that, together, show a 3D version of the object.

Based on the point cloud image, HAER built detailed 3D models and 2D drawings of many of the country's engineering feats, and now the HAER archives will be housed at the Library of Congress.

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