This week: Women who make heart-shaped cucumbers, the hacks of Carioca, a QR code magazine, Japan’s world of competitive rubber band shooting, extreme styrofoam PC case mods, and the makeshift mobile restaurants of Japan. Heart-Shaped Cucumbers by the Heartstick Group – While many people may be familiar with the square melons of Japan, here are […]
“ReComputing Space” is a sound installation and psychogeographic study of urban spaces that consists of 30 loudspeakers ordered in a 5×6 matrix, placed on the floor approximately 2 meters from each other. The sounds “move” from speaker to speaker, reconstructing the paths of the microphone operators at the time of the recording as they moved […]
update: As readers noted, it’s not the 0 degrees longitude that’s the problem, it’s at 180 degrees where you could encounter issues. I’ve also escaped the gt and lt symbols. Sorry about that. I spent the weekend participating in the F1 Website Challenge, a coding marathon in which competing teams each produce a mythical man-month’s […]
The “Electro-Sketch” by Jason Levins and Chris Hopkins allows someone to control the movement of an Etch A Sketch using a typical serial mouse. Pretty nice hack with detailed instructions and even a parts and price list at the link below. How To Make an Etch-A-Sketch Driven Mouse – [via] , Link
Who knew there were so many ways to waterproof a servo? Apparently the people over at The Society of Robots, that’s who. The website describes several ways of making your servos waterproof. These methods should work, as long as you stay within a few feet of the waters surface. – Link
BurdaStyle has it’s first mini-challenge, a fast paced sewalong of this Sidonie skirt that will last 2 weeks. Enter for a chance to win some prizes. Thanks Nichola! Link.
The TrampoLine is an experimental music artwork that is controlled by an Arduino. It has a very interesting control scheme; here is how the creators describe it. The structure is built around a control handle, which is suspended by 8 flexible sensors. These can be plucked to produce sounds, whilst the bowl itself can be […]
