US President Obama oversaw the elimination of Osama bin Laden… and he asked the White House kitchen to begin brewing its own beer for parties? Remind me, how is it he’s not a shoe-in for reelection? Don’t answer that. Let’s focus on the beer.
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Kinect’s been hacked! And I can’t think of a better use of a day than the creation of this goofy animated bird, the most impressive shadow puppet you’ve ever thrown against a wall.
Take an evening stroll through a park in Brooklyn, New York, and you might spot what looks like a luminous stingray whizzing through the air above. Follow it to its landing spot and you’re bound to bump into Breck Baldwin and Mark Harder, two exhibitors from last week’s Maker Faire who spend much of their time in an underground workshop building remote-controlled aeroplanes pretty much from scratch. Their plan is to wean people off shop-bought kits and get them freestyling when it comes to building model planes, getting creative with recycled materials instead.
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This isn’t the first multitouch deejaying we’ve seen, but something about seeing this guy navigate his transparent control station – a homebrew touchscreen running a Traktor Pro MIDI controller called Emulator – really makes me want to do the robot.
And older Zunes, too! But let’s talk about the HD: With the new OpenZDK toolkit, developers can make homebrew apps for the Zune HD, and by following a relatively simple set of instructions, you can install them.
