Canon EOS utility updated to work in OS X Lion

If you're a photographer who uses Canon equipment and has been unable to use the Canon EOS utility after installing OS X Lion, some good news: Canon has issued an update to the tool that allows it to run properly in Apple's latest operating system. The Canon EOS Utility is an application that allows you to interface your Mac with your digital EOS camera, allowing you to not only transfer...

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Polly Camera Trolley Helps Stabilise Your Recordings

We have featured a number of devices designed to help provide a more stable and smooth platform for camcorders and cameras here on Geeky Gadgets. Including the awesome CineSkates Camera Slider which started its journey on Kickstarter not so long ago. Now a new design has been launched by Polly Systems called the Polly, which uses a flywheel driven chassis to hold your camera and keep everything...

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In the Maker Shed: ShapeLock

The first time I used ShapeLock was in my hotel room at Maker Faire: Bay Area. We needed some sample objects made for display in the Maker Shed so I made some using hot water from the coffee maker to soften the plastic beads. After I hand molded and cooled the plastic I was left with a solid, man shaped doll that I couldn’t break despite my best efforts (even using the hotel room door and...

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Video: To Enable the Robo-Insects of the Future, Researchers Capture Butterfly Flight at 3,000 FPS

Micro Aerial Vehicles Like Harvard's 'Mobee' Could Be Improved By Studying the Way Butterflies Fly via Harvard Microrobotics Lab Neither bio-mimicking robots nor insect-analog micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are new concepts. But where super high-speed video capture, competitive figure skating, and lepidopterology collide, there PopSci shall be. Today, that means turning our attention to...

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MIT App Inventor software now available to all

I would be willing to bet that most of us have been looking for a specific type of app for an Android device at some point and not been able to find exactly what we wanted. This typically leads the user to the notion that if they knew how to program, they could make a large profit off whatever their app idea is. If you are this sort of armchair developer, you might want to check out the MIT App...

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$25 Raspberry Pi packs 2x iPhone 4S GPU performance, roasts Tegra 2

Forget teaching kids how to program; the $25 Raspberry Pi computer might just be the home entertainment STB and compact gaming console we’ve been waiting for. The low-cost computer – and its $35 sibling – should deliver double the graphical performance of the iPhone 4S, according to executive director (and Broadcom SoC architect) Eben Upton, telling Digital Foundry that not only does the...

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CUPP Computing’s PunkThis board puts Android on any laptop

Want to double, triple, even quadruple the battery life of your laptop? Want to swap out the stale Windows software with a more flexible operating system known as Android? That’s the promise of an impending product from niche tech company CUPP Computing. Called the PunkThis board, it is easily installed into any laptop and brings a fully functional Android interface to the machine. The PCB...

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How-To: Augmented Reality with Processing

Creative Applications posted this thorough guide to getting started with augmented reality in Processing. They use NyARToolkit, which is an open source augmented reality library for Java and other languages. The tutorial starts off with a very basic example of using the toolkit to augment 3D boxes on an image (see above). It then moves into more advanced live video and 3D techniques. Hit play...

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iOS Communicating with Arduino Demonstration

This video from oscon featuring Alasdair Allen, author of iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino, gives an inspiring overview and demonstration of what is possible using the Maker Shed’s RedPark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS. While the video doesn’t rank high on the excitement scale, it gives great insights and project ideas to anyone interested in combining iOS devices and microcontrollers. ...

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How-To: Arduino Interrupts

In a basic Arduino sketch, if you want to take action based on the status of a digital input pin, you’d check the state of the pin repeatedly until a particular condition is met. However, as your sketches become increasingly complex, you’ll find that it’s not always the best way to do this. EngBlaze posted a pair of guides to using interrupts so that you can execute code asynchronously in...

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