Everyone knows and loves Pacman game. Programmer Dale Harvey has created a playable version of Pac-Man because writing a simple browser game seemed like a good idea. He is using only web standards: localStorage, HTML5 Audio, Canvas and @font-face. To play Harvey’s game, you’ll need to use a browser that supports the HTML5 elements he’s →
Tesla coils and other high voltage equipment that make sparks are always interesting. For that reason ArcAttack is an interesting performance art group that specializes in playing music through a combination of home made, high tech instruments, and more traditional instruments. The main attraction of their performance is the use of two custom built Singing →
I visited Assembly Summer 2010 computer festival this weekend. There were many interesting multimedia presentations shown there and some interesting seminars. Check the competition results and view the winners easily on Assembly Summer 2010 gallery and more on YouTube. Check also Future Crew documentary. In the seminars Andreas Jakl from Nokia presented material on programming →
Design News reports and interesting LED lighting application. In Brussels, the Dexia Tower office building uses 151,200 LEDs to illuminate the entire building. Each window is illuminated by a row of 12 RGB LEDs along the bottom of the windowpane. A computer controls the whole display. Watch the Youtube video of the building LEDs in →
Assembly TV has just started the Internet broadcasting from Assembly Summer 2010 Festival. Expect to see lots of interesting material. In this example screen capture you see that you can make interesting demo with Texas Instruments graphical calculator.. More amazing stuff coming on other platforms. View the Internet broadcast at http://www.assemblytv.net/ on your web browser. →
Assembly Summer 2010 is Finland’s largest computer festival. It takes place in Helsinki 5th to 8th of August 2010 at the Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, Finland. ASSEMBLY is a computer festival, a demo party and a LAN party all rolled into one. It is four day party running 24h/day for computer hobbyists. ASSEMBLY is a four →
Every field comes up with its own jargon. New Programming Jargon article lists programming terms that different programmers or their team have coined and have come into regular use in their own circles. Interesting and in some parts funny reading. →
MUST SEE!: LEGO Mindstorm Pirate Movie is a little movie made using nothing by LEGO Mindstorm NXT sets and LEGO blocks. It is amazing. The movie is only 2:20 long, and the rest of the video shows you what’s behind the curtain. I think this could be one of the best Lego buildings on youtube. →
Sing Talk is a very fynny music video parody of Kesha hit Tik Tok from collegehumor.com. Enjoy watching it. See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. I saw this first at control geek blog. →