Upcoming classes @ the Hacktory, Philadelphia, PA – Arduino – On Saturday, April 26, the Hacktory will offer its popular Intro to Arduino for Artists and Makers course, which demonstrates the use of the Arduino, an open-source physical computing platform (www.arduino.cc), and its applications in interactive art and DIY electronic projects. Students will connect a […]
This is a really nice drum machine that utilizes DIP switches to control the drum beats. Those types of switches are hard to manipulate, but I imagine you could easily replace them with an easier to use 2 or 3 position toggle switch. The two dip switches work in tandem so that each 1/8th note […]
Last year Mike’s window in Melbourne, Australia displayed 200 handmade softies that were donated to The Mirabel Foundation which supports the children of families affected by substance abuse. This year Softies for Mirabel would like to ask you for a softie contribution. Read on for more info and check out the Flickr group. From Meet […]
Our friend Dug North from The Automata / Automaton Blog posted this really interesting clockwork mechanism. This is the repaired inner mechanism of a Vichy automaton made in France in 1875. The complete automaton depicts a lady who breathes, closes her eyes, turns her head, fans herself, and lifts her glasses to her eyes. More […]
The {New New } York Etsy Street Team create their own recycled jewelry with their tutorial on how to make aluminum can jewelry. Thanks Kimm!
Marshall writes – The Multari is a portable Atari 2600 with 32 built-in games built by myself, Marshall. It features a vacuum-formed styrene plastic case, 5″ LCD, and no big cartridges to carry around.
CupBoy from the Nihilogic blog wrote a Javascript Super Mario engine which compresses down to just 14K. This includes all of the audio and sprite data for the little demo, which are both encoded within the single Javascript file. The sprites are stored in custom encoded strings in a format that only allows 4 colors […]
