Mg_man writes – After seeing all the LED menorah projects out there I thought this was the next (although warped) step.This is a melding of a hanukah menorah(chanukkiyah) and an Adafruit Industries miniPOV. The candle holders were drilled out to pass wires for the LEDs and with a little help from a soldering iron and […]
Holiday light Arduino project from Brian @ Hackszine– I wanted to take control of the lights on my Christmas tree this year, so I read everything I could about interfacing an LED matrix. The idea was to have a setup where I could turn individual lights on and off, and run a little program that […]
Wow! So far this is my favorite Xmas tree this year! Maybe next year it could be playable… – [via] Link.
Jason Salavon’s “374 Farben” – This project, a large light box, contains all 374 pages of the 2007 IKEA catalogue, each simplified to a rectangle of pure color and arranged them left-to-right , top-to-bottom. With an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is thought to have surpassed the Bible as the […]
Maybe a good (re)make? – YOU walk across the green-lawned, palm-hemmed park overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, and climb the stairs to the little house in the picture above. Your party gathers around a circular rail in the center, the door is closed and at first all is darkness. Then, slowly and […]
Great story on Wired by Quinn Norton about “time hackers” – “If you have one clock … you are peaceful and have no worries,” says Van Baak, fingering a length of cable connecting two of his machines. “If you have two clocks … you start asking, ‘What time is it, really?’” Van Baak is in […]
“Stuhlhockerbank” or “Chair Stool Bank” is a sculpture by Yvonne Fehling and Jennie Peiz that combines a long bench with several individual chairs to make a rather large, asymmetric piece of furniture. Although “poetic” to say the least, this design might not work very well for an airline gate waiting area. STUHLHOCKERBANK – Link, [via]
