Lenore demonstrates the Shuffle Headphones. These are designed to remove loose cables that can be a safety hazard. I’ve written a set of instructions, hosted on instructables, showing how to build your own set of Shuffle Headphones.
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JellyBean hangs out in Harley’s converted Apple Two-Page Monochrome Monitor, which has been repurposed into a cat bed. I removed the CRT, circuit boards, and added the towel and some catnip. Click on the photo for some comments on its flickr page. This was also covered on the Make Blog: Monitor Cat bed (Make Blog).
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We’ve been taking photos of birds around the south end of the San Francisco Bay. We’ve cataloged some of the interesting ones and put them up as the South Bay Birds Catalog. Pictured above, Anna’s Hummingbird, male. It’s smaller than it looks.
This is our dining table. We built it because we needed a new dining table, and I guess we’re just that kind of people. It has a frosted glass top lit by 448 multicolored LEDs that respond, in a complex and gentle fashion, to input generated by motion above the table while we eat.We showed it off at the Maker Faire. Click on the photo to get to see some other photos of the table construction. Lenore was interviewed about the table at the faire, see Lenore’s CNET inteview.
I gave a computer graphics tutorial at the MakerFaire about making 3D graphics using POV-Ray, a free, cross-platform ray-tracing program. I called it POV-Ray for Mere Mortals.
I gave a short presentation at the 2006 Makerfaire entitled What Makes Atomic Clocks Tick?, giving some details about how atomic clocks work and how they are used.
