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Micah's Lego Sky project incorporates an Ikea LED light strip and touchpad control -The Altoids tin has the modified driver circuit: It's the original circuit board with the microcontroller removed, then a homemade Arduino clone to control it. The orange box is an old Cirque PS/2 touchpad, removed from its original case and covered in fabric.

The Arduino sketch (firmware) is a little C++ program that reads the touchpad and uses it to control Hue and Lightness in the HSL color space. The result is a pretty intuitive and unobtrusive control which makes it easy to both pick a color and desaturate it toward white or dim it toward black. You can easily get some really nice sunset and sky colors.Get more details on his blog - Lego Sky

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pimg id="image12806" src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/pixar.jpg" class="centro" alt="Pixar" //p pEn navidades las televisiones en España nos ofrecen contenidos televisivos muy concretos, de los que realmente pocas cosas se salvan. Pero hay otras, como esta que hoy nos ocupa que añaden contenidos bastante entretenidos e interesantes. En esta ocasión strongAntena 3/strong va a programar en diciembre durante dos días una serie de strongcortos de animación de la factoría Pixar,/strong cortos que muchos hemos visto, pero que para aquellos que no los habéis podido ver, comentar simplemente que están bastante entretenidos y son perfectos para programar en estas fechas./p pAntena 3 no nos ha concretado el día de emisión, pero se emitirán estas navidades, en prime time, y a lo largo de dos sesiones en dos días diferentes. Los cortos, que duran aproximadamente 5 minutos cada uno han recibido diferentes premios y nominaciones a los Oscars y otros certámenes internacionales. Desde luego me parece una buena propuesta, que espero tenga éxito porque este tipo de contenidos no suelen poder verse en televisión cuando realmente valen la pena. Y de paso, espero que sea un paso para que las cadenas, poco a poco, apuesten por los cortos en televisión./p pHay más cortos de Pixar que bien podrían haberse incluido, pero strongestos son los que se emitirán/strong en televisión: !--more--/p ph3 Saltando /h3img id="image12805" src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/saltando.png" class="izquierda" alt="Saltando" / Este corto se emitió en los cines antes de la película Los Increibles y fue nominado al Oscar a mejor cortometraje en 2003. br / strongArgumento:/strong En lo alto de una montaña vive una oveja famosa por su lustroso manto de lana. Un día es esquilada y con la pérdida de su lana, pierde también su orgullo. Un sabio conejito será el encargado de enseñar a la deprimida oveja que lo importante para afrontar los problemas que puedan surgirle en la vida, está en su interior./p ph3 JackJack ataca /h3 img id="image12807" src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/jackjack.png" class="izquierda" alt="jack jack" / Este corto está incluido en la versión de la película span class="caps"LOS/span INCREÃspan class="caps"BLES/span en span class="caps"DVD/span. La idea de este corto surgió a raíz de una escena que iba a ser incluida en la película y que, finalmente, no se incluyó.br / strongArgumento:/strong Cuando Kari McKean, la niñera de Jack-Jack Parr (el bebé de span class="caps"LOS/span INCREÃspan class="caps"BLES/span), intenta entretener al niño haciéndole escuchar una determinada música, provoca una reacción insólita en el niño./p ph3 Knick Knack /h3 img id="image12808" src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/knickknack.png" class="izquierda" alt="knickknack" / Corto creado en 1989, dirigido por John Lasseter. Fue completamente renovado para emitirse en cines antes de span class="caps"BUSCANDO/span A span class="caps"NEMO/span y para incluirse en el span class="caps"DVD/span de la misma película.br / strongArgumento:/strong La vida dentro de una bola de nieve de cristal colocada en una estantería, puede ser algo realmente aburrido, y más cuando estás rodeado de otros souvenirs. 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Su sufrido instructor a punto estará de perder la paciencia con él./p ph3 Mate y la luz fantasma /h3 img id="image12810" src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/mate.png" class="izquierda" alt="mate" / Este cortometraje está incluido en el Dvd de la película Cars.br / strongArgumento:/strong Mate, el personaje de span class="caps"CARS/span, es atrapado por una misteriosa luz azul que le enseña a no hacer travesuras al resto de coches de Radiator Springs. /p ph3 El hombre orquesta /h3 img id="image12811" src="http://img.vayatele.com/2008/12/el-hombre-orquesta.png" class="izquierda" alt="el hombre orquesta" / Interesante corto mudo donde la música y los gestos de los personajes, cuentan la historia. Ganó el Platinum Grand Prize en el Festival Future Film de Bolonia (Italia) y fue nominado a los Oscar en 2006. 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( Image above by Peter Beste. You're welcome! ) The LA Weekly has a feature up about a new book with portraits of very serious Norwegian Black Metal dudes. In True Norwegian Black Metal, photographer Peter Beste captures the "blackest of the black: apolitical and anti-Christian separatist self-preservationists who’d sooner make a lampshade out of their own skin than to try to convert fans." Snip from Siran Babayan's piece: Take, for example, Immortal singer-bassist Abbath strolling through the woods surrounded by moss-covered emerald trees (“That’s essentially his backyard”), or Gorgoroth singer Gaahl standing in front of a snow-capped log cabin. Every turn of the page is a moving postcard of brooks, lakes and forrests. Which begs the question: With all the serenity and breathtaking views, what’s to rebel against? Apparently, Mother Nature makes mean Vikings out of little boys. If Black Sabbath were a product of bleak, industrial Birmingham, it should be no surprise that music this extreme thrives in a country with such high precipitation and so many months of either uninterrupted daylight or darkness. So don’t let the scenery fool you. These are some disturbed and disturbing fuckers, whether it’s guitarist Ymon of Perished with his arms covered in branding marks, or Nattefrost of Carpathian Forest smoking heroin off tin foil or a nude female model being painted in cow’s blood before she’s about to be hung from a cross for a Gorgoroth show in Krakow. Nearly everyone is wearing a scowl, corpse paint and spikes. And Beste’s grossest moment has him shooting Nattefrost smeared in his own shit. Of all the bands featured, Beste focuses on the Tolkien-inspired Gorgoroth and its lead troublemaker Gaahl, who’s been arrested twice for alleged assault and torture, and whose face, with its sunken cheeks, looks even creepier without makeup. And that Krakow gig in 2004 not only included human crucifixes but sheep heads mounted on sticks. (Dude, one photo of decapitated sheep heads would’ve been enough.) Images of Satan (LA Weekly), and there's a terrific slideshow here (NSFW). Here's the Amazon link if you'd like to buy the book. (Thanks Richard Metzger) Previously on Boing Boing: Black Metal for Dummies Black Metal cupcakes More on sociology of Malaysian Black Metal Malaysia bans metal as un-Islamic. For those about to rock: jail ... Cookie Monster Tribute Heavy Metal Band Malaysian metal and the Man: a first-hand account Dave Hill and Black Metal Dialogues...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=92a61e9f9b046cebd8cb76c657684f61" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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Chris reviewed "The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments" as well as "Mr Wizard's 400 Experiments in Science", he writes -

"Mr Wizards 400 Experiments in Science". (Reno: "Emilio Lizardo is a top scientist, dummkopf." Perfect Tommy: "So was Mr. Wizard." -The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, now available on DVD!). Written by Mr Wizard himself, Don Herbert with Hy Ruchlis, this book is more about demonstrating scientific principles and phenomena in the home with less-sophisticated equipment. No beakers and Bunsen burners, this is all water glasses, pencils, string, tin cans and rubber bands. Just like the original Mr Wizard shows. This stuff is great. This book, thankfully, is a little more affordable! There seem to be several reprints of this with different covers, as you can see from the Amazon link. There's even one called "Soft Blu Bonnet Margarine Presents Mr. Wizard's 400 Easy Experiments in Science by Don Ruchlis, Hy Herbert". Because when I think of melting something on my toast, I want to think of chemistry! And who the heck are these Hy Herbert and Don Ruchlis guys? a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/mr_wizards_400_experiment.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/mr_wizards_400_experiment.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" / Permalink/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/mr_wizards_400_experiment.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890#comments" /Comments/a | a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/retro/?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890" /Read more articles in Retro/a | a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=blog.makezine.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F12%2Fmr_wizards_400_experiment.htmltitle=Mr%20Wizard%26apos%3Bs%20400%20Experiments%20in%20Sciencebodytext=%20Chris%20reviewed%20%26quot%3BThe%20Golden%20Book%20of%20Chemistry%20Experiments%26quot%3B%20as%20well%20as%20%26quot%3BMr%20Wizard%26apos%3Bs%20400%20Experiments%20in%20Science%26quot%3B%2C%20he%20writes%20-%20%26quot%3BMr%20Wizards%20400%20Experiments%20in%20Science%26quot%3B.%20%28Reno%3A%20%26quot%3BEmilio%20Lizardo%20is%20a%20top%20scientisttopic=tech_news" /Digg this!/a

This is a really cool robot made from an Arduino and a tin can. The best part about the project is a Father and his 3 & 6 year olds built it together. What a great way to spend the Thanksgiving weekend!

This blog post will show you how to build an autonomous robot that seeks out light based on a toy with a low power DC motor, an Arduino board, and a host of electronic components. Look at the pictures or go and check out a movie of the end product-- the robot on a flashlight "leash." I built it with my 6 and 3 year olds over Thanksgiving weekend in stages, and we had a blast doing it.

More about making an Arduino based tin can robot

In the Maker Shed:


Co-Robot Kit

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