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Peregrine glove

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Initially developed for military purposes, the Peregrine glove is like a ‘glove controller’ for games, and was introduced at E3 2009.
It has a total of 40 contact points combinations and it will be available this Fall for about 100€.

How it works:

Demonstration:


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More information about Peregrine glove at engadget.

How to: Making a Multitouch Pad

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More info at:
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Originally seen at:
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‘BUG’: The origins

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Loading ... Loading ... Have you ever wondered where and why the term ‘BUG’, used to indicate a failure in a computer program, was born?

“A software bug (or just “bug”) is an error, flaw, mistake, “undocumented feature”, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended”

Thomas Edison and Grace Hopper are two names that stand out when talking about the etymology of the term ‘Bug’.
Thomas often recurred to the term in his letters to express ‘little faults and difficulties’.

“The invention of the term is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.”

According to Hopper, the cause of the malfunction was an insect.

“Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. The operators who did find it (including William “Bill” Burke, later of the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren Va.), were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation ‘First actual case of bug being found.’ “

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Source: wikipedia.org

Head Tracking: The next generation?

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Video at: Youtube
More at: johnnylee.net

How to: building an electronic cage system?

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Loading ... Loading ... How can you build an electronic cage system that is able to feed the animal, and automatically cleans the cage after 8 meals?
This was my final project for ‘Digital/Logic Systems’ at the college.
The goal was to create a cage system with the following features:

- While the animal is eating, the cage cannot be cleaned;
- Feeding the animal takes 4 clocks;
- You can only re-feed the animal when the previous feeding process is finished and the “feed switch” was previously turned off;
- After 8 meals, the cage should automatically initiate the cleaning process;
- The cleaning process takes 4 clocks to complete, and a new process can only be started when previous processes are over.

So…how can you do this? Like this…

It took ages for us to put this working…but we made it :D ah ah
Congrats to my working group!