Simon Willison’s Weblog

Johnny Chung Lee: Projects Wii. Awe-inspiring hardware hacks built on top of the Wiimote, including a dirt cheap interactive whiteboard and a head tracking system that turns a normal display in to a 3D VR environment.

# 23rd December 2007, 9:23 am / wiimote, wii, johnny-chung-lee, hardware-hacking, make, hardware, 3d, vr

Binary marble adding machine. Watch the video.

# 29th June 2007, 12:44 am / video, binary, woodwork, make, marbles

Reducing HTTP requests using make. Nice simple recipe for concatenating JavaScript in to one file using make—doesn’t do anything for cache-busting though.

# 27th May 2007, 11:29 pm / javascript, performance, make

Quakr 7d Tiltometer. How the Quakr team built their own seven dimensional metadata camera using sellotape, protractors and a ball of string.

# 12th April 2007, 11:12 am / quakr, make, oxfordgeeknight2

Balancing One-Wheeled Scooter. Technical details of the scooter I linked to earlier.

# 12th March 2007, 1 pm / scooter, make

Meet the one wheel balancing scooter. Home made one wheeled motorised scooter that looks like a skateboard and self-balances like a Segway.

# 11th March 2007, 9:19 pm / scooter, make, engadget