Daily Digest March 16, 2012

  • Automated sky tracking to catch UFOs
    If you were to try to take a picture of a UFO, how would you do it? Sit by the side of a road in Nevada near Area 51? Pie tin on a string? A French team of UFO enthusiasts put together an automated UFO detection device (Google translate) out of a disco light and CCTV [...]
  • Fashion leads to mind-controlled skirt-lifting contraption
    This must be an example of when worlds collide. Who would have thought the geekery of Mindflex and Arduino could make its way into high fashion? But sure enough, this dress transforms based on the mental concentration of the model (must resist urge to crack joke here). Details are a bit sparse, but you can get [...]
  • Hackday Links: March 16, 2012
    Shamrock hat [Josh] whipped up a shamrock themed hat by adding an outline of green LEDs to this bowler. Just remember, don’t drink and solder. Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! Battery-powered Xmas lights can be more useful [Karl] took a string of mostly useless battery-powered Christmas lights and found a good use for them. He replaced [...]

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