botheredbybees » art-o-mat http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org love the honey (worried about the buzzing in my ears) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:31:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Auto-blog entry from del.icio.us links http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/09/links-for-2006-09-09/ http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/09/links-for-2006-09-09/#comments Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:19:33 +0000 oldcodgertater http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/09/links-for-2006-09-09/ Ha, lazy blogger trick #1: create blog entries without actually writing anything. Now I just have to come back every now and then to give a little spiel on why I found these links worthy of inclusion in my del.icio.us stable. Yesterday’s crop:

Scan, copy and fax with your camera phone or digital camera

a service that lets you capture information contained in paper documents or whiteboards. 1) capture the image using your mobile camera phone or digital camera 2) send the image to scanr 3) get back an email which includes a searchable digital PDF file of your image this works best with a high res image (1 to 2 GB), but looked promising for capturing that end-of-lecture mess you’ve created on the whiteboard – ready to post on your blog or something

(tags: scan tools pdf Mobile photo mlearning interesting todo)

artomat

retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art – pretty obviously, this link came about while writing my last post.

(tags: art artomat art-o-mat vending fun todo)

]]> http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/09/links-for-2006-09-09/feed/ 2 Vending Machines http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/08/vending-machines/ http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/08/vending-machines/#comments Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:41:48 +0000 oldcodgertater http://oldcodgertater.edublogs.org/2006/09/08/vending-machines/ Vending machines have been in my mind of late. It all started with a reference I found to an art vending machine in New York – $5 art from a defunct cigarette dispenser. “What a cool idea” I thought, and moved on to other distractions. Shortly thereafter, I spotted an article on book vending machines in Paris.

Thinks: if you wanted to build something like this for yourself, you might start with a search on eBay for vending machines – plenty there to choose from in a range of styles and prices. If you had enough second hand books you might decorate your vending machine in the style of Patrick Hall…

And that’s as far as I’ve come with this project Actually, I’ve looked into where you might plug a book vending machine in, and picked up an industrial strength guillotine for creating the decor, and have actually tossed out about 3 ute loads of paperbacks since then, but it’s still in my head. Why write about it now? Well, another bunch of vending machine pix took my fancy. Originally thunk up my the German employment agency, jobsintown, I thought the TAFE should use this idea for themselves – click on each for an enlargement.

Ah… magic boxes. You put your money in and stuff comes out, but how it happens is anyone’s guess.

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