Collaborate Disseminate
Like so many of us, [pgsanchez] has been bitten by the flight simulator bug. It’s a malady that can only be treated, but never cured — and like so many …read more Continue reading Physical Control Panel Elevates Flight Sim Experience
If there’s anything you can guarantee about a video game system, it’s that in 20 years after one suffers a commercial failure there will be a tiny yet rabid group …read more Continue reading N-Gage Controller Uses All The Buttons
These nifty buttons come from [Marc Schömann], and they are intended to cover just about any kind of tact switches. The buttons, their cover, and the compliant bits that act as a spring can be 3D printed as a complete unit that requires no assembly, and can be used fresh …read more
Continue reading 3D Printed Buttons, Printed as a Single Unit
Researchers from Columbia University and Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, have come up with an ingenious method of smartphone control. It lets you add dials and switches to a handset, without the need for any connecting wires or Bluetoo… Continue reading Researchers build a smart case to control your phone with no wires or Bluetooth required
Rather than discuss whether buttons are good or bad we should instead examine who gets to push them and who doesn’t. Continue reading I Studied Buttons for 7 Years and Learned These 5 Lessons About How and Why People Push Them
The phrase “Go big or go home” is clearly not lost on [Adam Haile] and [Dan Ternes] of Maniacal Labs. For years they’ve been thinking of creating a giant LED matrix where each “pixel” doubled as a physical push button. Now that they’ve built up experience working on other LED projects, they finally decided it was time to take the plunge and create their masterpiece: the Bixel.
Creating the Bixel (a portmanteau of button, and pixel) was no small feat. The epic build is documented in an exceptionally detailed write-up on the team’s site, in addition to the time-lapse video …read more
Continue reading Bixel, An Open Source 16×16 Interactive LED Array
It seems everyone in Silicon Valley wants to create a one-button universal remote for the world. It’s coming sooner than you think. The post The Race to Cover Your World in Really Useful Buttons appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading The Race to Cover Your World in Really Useful Buttons