A quick guide for getting up and running with node js on your personal server. Getting started… If you don’t already have git installed on your server I suggest you refer to my earlier post on installation. We’ll be using git to grab node.js in this tutorial. You also must have root or shell exec access in order to execute
A quick tutorial on installing Git on your server in order to download packages directly from github like Node.js. First make sure you don’t have Git already installed. git –help If something other than an error pops up in the command line, then you already have it installed! Otherwise read on… Installation… (Keep in mind, I’m writing this tutorial for
In this tutorial you’ll find out how to: Install processing on your mac. Install a library to use with our X-Box Kinect. Run some example programs to start playing with the Kinect’s output. The goal is to keep this tutorial as simple as possible. Requirements… You’ll need: Microsoft XBox kinect with a wall unit power adapter with usb connection. Unix
Getting started… You must have shell access available on your server. If you don’t know, you can always check the administration panel of your hosting to find out. Many hosting providers use something called “cPanel” to manage their backends, they will often change styles but the icons will look the same. Look for something that looks like this: If you
I’ll be doing a series on smartifying your house. What better way to start this series that with the most important device in man’s modern history, the toilet? Then we’ll take a look generally at the bathroom and see what else we can wire up in order to provide ourselves with some interesting albeit funny data. After conquering the bathroom,
This demo explains how to develop a simple reverse parallax effect using javascript, css and html5. It gives examples, downloadable source code and tutorial explaining the process.
For those of us who wonder about things like whether or not there is a dom manipulation library that could easily select elements from a page captured from a cURL script with jQuery style selectors… Simple HTML DOM Library. I needed this for a project recently where I had to grab dynamic elements from other sites and then capture only
For SXSW I wanted to do something memorable with my business cards, something that would separate me from my peers and entice potential employers to actually visit my website! The plan… A bunch of students here at BDW decided to go analog and create business cards by hand using an old printing press. I began documenting the process of creating
The Project: Boulder Digital Works is teaming up with Nile Southern and Open Road media to revive Terry Southern’s career. We initially intended to build an interactive environment online where users could weigh in on how Terry has affected their lives, give commentary and submit Terry-inspired content. However, as most things do, plans have changed and we’ve taken a new
Find out how to make a simple range finding sensor box to alert you when your far enough in the garage!