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DIY HACK - How to Make a Wii Whiteboard!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Games, HOWTO, Hack, Video, wii by max on the May 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 am

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This is exactly what I need instead of my whiteboard and pens that wear out.

This is a port of Johnny Chung Lee’s Whiteboard app for the actual Wii. Kudos & thanks to Johnny Lee, Team Twiizers, svpe, shagku and para.

To use this application, you need the following:

* A Wii with some method to run homebrew on it, e.g. the Twilight Hack
* Two Wiimotes. Wiimote 1 is for interaction, Wiimote 2 should be positioned somewhere where it can see your entire screen, but not much more. It shouldn’t be moved after you have started the calibration.
* An infrared Light Pen, very easily soldered according to this schematic.

via google code

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DIY HACK - How to make your own White Board Plotter!

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Funny, Gadgets, Hack, Projects, Video by max on the April 30th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

White Board Plotter!

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Lol, this has got to be the best DIY project I have seen this year. A white board plotter! I need this as I used my white board a lot but do feel if I had such an automated plotter, I could be doing a lot better at jotting down my ideas more clearly than what is now, simply scrambled jotting.

Well, using the Internet to take a look at the whiteboard isn’t that difficult: just take a webcam and point it at the board. Writing it will be a bit more difficult: there’s something like a plotter needed for that. I’d like the solution to be lightweight: while a completely Borgified whiteboard has its charm too, I’d like to alter mine as little as possible. That’s why I decided to use an idea I saw first at the 24C3: a way of hanging a pen using 2 rubber belts and two motors called a bipod. Problem was that I had no info of that device (I found the youtube-link while writing this article) so I had to work from memory.

[via] HackaDay

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Cool High-tech whiteboard for your school from MIT

Posted in Cool, Educational by max on the October 22nd, 2006 at 10:25 pm
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