You have to love this commercial. Robby the Robot, Rosie from The Jetsons, WOPR from WarGames and K.I.T.T. all together and preserved here for your amusement. This has to be my new favorite commercial - I think I actually stopped breathing when I first saw it on TV.
Sometimes living in Birmingham requires some sacrifices. This weekend in San Mateo, the Maker Faire was underway and I was sadly a few thousand miles away. Hopefully next year I’ll be able to go and experience the wonderfullness of it all. Maybe I could even bring the project that I’m currently working on.
Also, in light of some recent news, Zerosign will be undergoing some redesign soon. I feel that this site needs one more badge, don’t you? That being said, if anyone has any creative input they’d like to share (other than the obvious “Your blog stinx!”) please feel free to comment.
Finally, I’d like to congratulate reader Austin once more for this superp rendition of the PowerGlove Mouse and for his Digg frontpage success. I truly appreciate all the visitors that come this way.
These pics were snapped of a bus in India and bear the awesome logo of the bestest open source browser in the whole world. What’s funny is that I can’t see a web address or even the name “FireFox” anywhere on the bus. I wonder if this is just some artistic FF based grafitti rather than an India wide advertising campaign. Either way it’s great.
link - kalyan [via EL]
Zerosign reader Austin Weber took it upon himself to make his own PowerGlove Mouse based on my previous design. In addition to cleaning up all the wires and using smaller circuitry components he also has a killer demo of the glove with Unreal Tournament. He mapped the in game controls so that his thumb controls forward motion, his pointer finger controls the trigger and his arm motion controls the camera view.
Notes from Austin on his modifications:
I had the 4 wires coming from the glove bundled together, as the ones from the mouse. Then I skrewed the base of the mouse into the glove, and drilled another hole that the wires from the batteries come up from under the glove. The circuit on the left is held on by a single wire going around the base of the glove into the top 2 holes of the breadboard. This allows it to be sturdy as well as flexible. Also I used telephone wires from a telephone cable, they are small and sturdy (easy to solder) took out the mouse wheel and strung them all out of there.
