We’ve written about cheap oscilloscopes before, but this one uses two tools we blog about a lot here (Arduino and Processing) to visualize an analog signal on your computer. The resolution is 10 bits, so it’s not perfect, but it is pretty useful nevertheless with the code available from the link below. Poorman’s oscilloscope (with […]
Make Magazine, Craft Magazine and the Maker Faire team will be coming to Dallas to host an “Afternoon At Maker Faire” at The Museum of Nature and Science on Saturday, July 19th (from 9am – 5pm). We will bring together Dallas/Ft. Worth area Makers to exhibit their creative projects for a fun afternoon at the […]
Currently Firefox, Safari and Opera have reasonable support for the Canvas HTML element. With IE the only major remaining laggard, there are a lot of people starting to experiment with Javascript’s new graphical capabilities. I mentioned John Resig’s Processing.js library in May, and now Aza Raskin has released the ContextFree.js library, which brings another generative […]
Bobby Solomon at the Kitsune Noir blog points out that there’s an article in Dwell on how the Little Field of Flowers rug by Tord Boontje is made. From this picture alone you can see how the die cut felt flowers are woven in to make a soft bed of pleasant shapes. (Thanks, Collin!)
The Ongoing Project shares her pattern for making this pretty crocheted collar, which can be whipped up in an evening.
These musical hand puppets by Matthew Irvine Brown look irresistibly fun to play with. Sensors in the puppets mouth measure how wide it’s open and that data is converted to a musical scale. These puppets can be tuned to sing in any scale or mode. At the minute their voices come from a small Max/MSP […]
This Hydraulophone is located outside the Ontario Science Centre. I would love to know more about how it works because it sure looks, and sounds, great. I wonder how they play it during those long Canadian winters? Hydraulophone video Presently the world’s largest hydraulophone is the main architectural centerpiece out in front of the Ontario […]
