Recent Articles about Physical

• March 17, 2011 SXSW LEGO MINDSTORMS Hackathon My excellent adventures organizing a hackathon-party at South by Southwest.
• Sept. 30, 2010 Stairs or Elevator? Use Bluetooth! An exploration into using Bluetooth Sensor Networks for tracking patterns in behavior.
• Aug. 6, 2010 Skip to Skip: a Running Gesture What if you had accelerometers in your shoes? Could mid-stride gestures replace the headphone remote for changing tracks?
• May 28, 2010 Prototyping with Wii Remotes in Python A how-to about getting access to a wii remote using Python.
• May 18, 2010 Nike+ Hacking with Python A deep dive into the Nike+ shoe sensor and USB dongle system, and how to get data from it using Python.
• Nov. 18, 2009 Ubiquitous Drums Is that a portable drum kit in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
• Oct. 20, 2009 Arduino-Nerf Mashup Using an Arduino and a servo motor to retrofit a nerf gun with an auto-fire mechanism.
• Aug. 7, 2009 Plotting Something Radial Attempting to build a plotter based on the radial coordinate system using LEGO Mindstorms. Eventually I gave up and built a cartesian plotter.
• Feb. 5, 2009 iPhone car kit: roll your own A joke-hack involving a CD, duct tape, an iPhone dock and your car.
• Nov. 15, 2008 Robotic Piano Playback About a LEGO Mindstorms robot that listens to a melody and then plays it back on the piano.