June 18, 2011

Name the Thing Contest - 176
Contests

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The prize this week is a cable tester which will make sure your home made cables are working correctly. This contest will run for one week (June 18 – 24, 2011). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject,

BASTLI Interactive Color LED Dancefloor
Complex Hacks

Mario Mauerer and Lukas Schrittwieser sent in the project that has been created in the student lab over the past 1.5 years. It is a huge interactive LED disco floor which consists of 640 RGB LEDs. “The cool thing is that each tile can detect if somebody is standing on it or not! This information is process10 square meter ed by a Java program that allows us to write various