Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton.

Gian Pablo’s Immersive Video Project

NYCResistor’s Gian Pablo Villamil is working on a really interesting project with panoramic Video in New Orleans. He can’t tell us what the project will do, who is involved, or if space aliens really exist, but the few photos he…

3D Wiremap!

A 3D what you say?! One of the many projects we saw at The Last HOPE was the 3D Wiremap by Albert Hwang. The Wiremap, pictured above, is a surreal 3D display made with fishing wire. Yes, that’s right, I…

Volumes of Emptiness Installation

John Houck has created this really interesting installation, here’s his description of the guts of the piece: This installation contains 35 motors that are controlled individually with an arduino microcontroller. Processing is used to send commands, via serial communication, to…

XBEE meet Lilypad, Lilypad meet XBEE.

Rob Faludi and Kate Hartman posted about the protype version of the XBEE Lilypad. The Lilypad is the incredibly small — wearable version — of the Arduino, and to borrow a phrase from a well known advertisment, the XBEE ‘gives…

My weekend at FOO Camp…

This past week I had the opportunity to attend FOO Camp in Sabastapol, CA. It was an amazing experience and I’m still trying to digest it all. Sessions I attended included ‘Hacking Bacteria’, ‘The History of Internet Art’, ‘Better Data…