Jonah @ MAKE writes: This pixellated water was spotted somewhere on NYC’s Lower East Side, but it didn’t quite evaporate so it’s probably still around there somewhere. This type of art is a pretty nice way to re-imagine the city as if it were a video game, a technique that many different artists have been […]
Along the same lines as the subway vent animals we saw a few weeks ago, Joshua Allen Harris made this air gust-filled sea monster that comes to life when the train passes by. Related: Plastic bag animals
I’m not too sure how I feel about the greasy pizza box, but I give 10 points for ingenuity. This is a great input device for any application that allows you to virtually scrub audio or video, and it can be built in only a few minutes. Make a Pizza box scratch pad
Mark Malmberg makes these really nice solar powered mobiles. He has a few of them posted on his website, so make sure to click around to view more of his work. The mobiles convert sunlight into electricity to animate themselves in improvisational ways. Wireless communication (Bluetooth) is a feature of my latest works-in-progress, allowing the […]
Xbox live has a bunch of classic arcade games that you can download via XBox Live. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a classic joystick controller too? Obviously some other people think so too, and here is a great example of a homemade Xbox arcade controller. Related: Make An Xbox360 Arcade Joystick
This is a cool project from the Volunteer Lab Rat website: It’s time for me to present to you my Table Top Tesla Coil. I had my fair amount of concern while building this contraption, as everybody else on the net start their build with a Java based calculator. At first I didn’t think that […]
WhipUp tips us off to these great instructions by Laura Diez on how to make this cute crocheted octopus–and the info is available in both English and Spanish. Octopus How-To
