Monthly Archives: March 2011

links for 2011-03-30

usLEDsupply – Your source for High Tech RGB color LED lights, DMX controllers, and LED lighting supplies at wholesale prices. Our products are perfect for area architectural lighting, home accent lighting, LED under cabinet lighting, LED signs, LED landscape lighting, restaurant light, night club lights, motorcycle accent lighting, automotive LED lights, boat/marine LED applications, mood [...]

links for 2011-03-29

Timeglider jQuery Plugin/Widget Timeglider is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline — great for history projects, project planning, and much more. This Javascript/jQuery plugin is completely free & open-source [MIT]. Commercial solutions are under development which will complement the timeline viewer: authoring tools, databases, support plans, etc. Our code repository is at github.com/timeglider. (tags: javascript jquery)

links for 2011-03-28

Genetic Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry; DNA Test – 23andMe With a simple saliva sample we'll help you gain insight into your traits, from baldness to muscle performance. Discover risk factors for 97 diseases. Know your predicted response to drugs, from blood thinners to coffee. And uncover your ancestral origins. (tags: dna genetics tests)

links for 2011-03-24

Body 2.0 – Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body | Singularity Hub life tracking (tags: technology science mobile sensor body) Slip ring Dan Goldwater is a co-founder of Instructables. Currently he operates MonkeyLectric where he develops revolutionary bike lighting products. He also writes a DIY column for Momentum magazine (tags: pov electronics diy make projects) [...]

Unpossible

Unpossible from Robin King on Vimeo. A paranoid inventor goes to any lengths to protect his new time machine. When things go catastrophically wrong, he is forced to use the machine in a desperate bid to put things right. A ridiculous sci-fi conundrum.

RGB LED POV Globe – Parts shopping

I spent most of the last week doing research and ordering parts samples and testing equipment, trying to get everything set up for this project. Things I have ordered. $75 USD – 100x Superflux “Piranha” RGB LEDs common-anode ($50 for the LEDs + 25 for shipping). From evilmadscience.com. Definitely not the cheapest place for RGB LEDs but they had the “Piranha” style [...]

Super Happy Hacker House 0E

It has been since early-February where we’ve had Super Happy Hacker House and it’ll be more exciting than ever! Come down to Vancouver Hack Space this upcoming Saturday, March 19th at 7 PM and join in on some good fun! Not a member? We simply ask for a donation small or large! Are you a [...]

RGB LED POV Globe – Research

I have decided to create a 64x RGB LED POV Globe for Maker faire and Buring man this year. This project is a factor more complex then any other project that I have attempted before, and quite a bit more expensive. My project will be similar to this project watch?v=4KN0xoHsUiI But my project has more LEDs, it will play almost [...]

links for 2011-03-17

Vancouver Junkyard Wars The Vancouver Junkyard War is an annual contest where teams of creative and/or technically inclined people compete to build machines out of junk to accomplish a certain task. The contest and accompanying rules are traditionally announced at a Saturday pancake breakfast. Teams then have the next week to design their machine and [...]

links for 2011-03-16

Banana equivalent dose – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A banana equivalent dose (BED) is a concept[1][2] to place in scale the dangers of radiation by comparing exposures to the radiation generated by a common banana. Many foods are naturally radioactive, and bananas are particularly so, due to the radioactive potassium-40 they contain. The banana equivalent [...]

links for 2011-03-04

MonoDroid – MonoDroid MonoDroid is a development stack for using C# and core .NET APIs to develop Android-based applications.MonoDroid will be a commercial product licensed in a similar fashion to our Mono for iPhone product MonoTouch.  (tags: android c# development mobile .net) Tempo :: The tiny JSON rendering engine by TwigKit Tempo is a tiny JSON [...]