Entries Categorized as 'Hardware'
- Wed, 23 Jan 2008 at 11:02 am · Alexei Karpenko shares with us his HALO (High ALtitude Object) project, which demonstrates a sophisticated home-built sensor payload that integrates with Google Earth. A must-see for anyone interested in mid to high-altitude balloon and UAV acquisition systems. (Frank Taylor at Google Earth Blog has also included a well-rounded write-up of the HALO project. — Thanks, Frank!)
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- Thu, 6 Dec 2007 at 3:18 pm · Sandio Tech releases their new Sandio 3D Game O2 mouse, with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) in 3D environments. The mouse looks like an ideal 3D 6DOF controller for me, as it would be more intuative to the production work-flow that I’ve mastered or grown accustomed to. I’ve tried just about any kind of peripheral you can imagine that’s supposed to make things easier, from track-balls, to pen-tablets and touch-screens (like Wacom) — I’ve always been faster and more efficient with a mouse and short-cuts.
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- Fri, 2 Nov 2007 at 12:43 pm · 3DConnexion is offering a 15% promotional discount for its SpaceNavigator 3D mouse, valid through November 16, 2007. [Source: Google Earth Blog]
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Stefan, over at Ogle Earth demonstrates a brilliant media demonstration, of creating your own weather station-like application using Wirecast. There’s a variety of uses for such a demonstration, actually — beyond this example.
Stefan’s demonstration, via YouTube
Taking it one step further
To add something to the mix, I’ll raise the bar a little bit by proposing a better […]
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Categories: Demonstrations · External News · Hardware
Tags: chroma key production, google earth, wiimote interface hack
Anyone looking for extremely large format printing, Graphic Systems’ Digital Rho is perhaps one of the better options I’ve come across.:
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Categories: Hardcopy · Hardware
Tags: 3d hardcopy, print technologies
Anyone who’s experienced an external hard-drive issue is familiar with the frustrations associated. In fact, this morning, I ran into an incredibly frustrating circumstance of my own — not one, but two external hard-drives appeared to be failing. But, with a little diligence, I managed to troubleshoot the problem and was surprised by how simple […]
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Specifications for the Optimus Maximus Keyboard have been officially released. The keyboard offers an impressive benefit to any user by lighting each key with the function it’s associated with using OLED technology. The flexibility this keyboard offers with its user-configurable options is actually more elegant than I was expecting to see! When can I get […]
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Categories: Hardware · Production
Tags: dynamic keyboard, production hardware
The Art Lebedev Studio, in Russia, had released on the 15th of this month that the description and specifications will be published for the Optimus Maximus Keyboard, on March 20, 2007 at 3:00 pm Moscow time. On that same day, they’ll begin accepting limited pre-orders.
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Categories: External News · Hardware
Tags: dynamic keyboard, production hardware