Tokyohackerspace made a trip last weekend to Kamogawa, across Tokyo bay in Chiba, to check out Kamogawa Valley for some possible rural hacking projects - wireless sensor networking for farming, arts etc. Here’s some video and pics. Click through on them to access the geotagged google map to see the locations.
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Impress R&D had a great celebration party at BarTube last night for the second edition of their SL™® ;-)) Magazine.
I had a lot of fun playing with a prototype of a new interface that a team working on Softbank’s sim had going.
It was using a 3-axis accelerometer hooked up to a modified client to send control data via chat, driving a big robot holding a box full of avatars and physical objects. The objective was pure and simple - get them all out of the box, while they keep trying to get in! Lot of Fun - go here to check it out. Excuse the quality of the images, taken on a mobile!
Update 05 April 2008: Tori Teatime, one of the developers, has just released a demo video:
Then we had a little boogie blues jam - Komuso Tokugawa [me!] on Harp/Slide/Vox, Hayashi-san from Impress on drums, Kanda-san [owner of BarTube and well know IT/Video journalist] on bass, and Yabush Yamdev on guitar along with japanese rock guitar legend Hatake-san . I left Hatake-san, Kanda-san, and Hayashi-san to finish off the night with some wild 70’s rock classic renditions.