Formants is an interactive artwork by Erin Gee. The piece plays .wav files when magnetic sensors detect the hair being brushed. It is all powered by our favorite little micro-controller, the Arduino. Read more about Formants
This looks like a nice developmental board for programming an ATmega8. The website has some sample programs and the Eagle files so you can make your own. [Thanks Florin] I made the board using my photo etching technique, and as you can see the results are great. The dev board has 17 I/O lines that […]
Zakka Life shows us how she put together these girly and delicate doily flower cubes, which she created for her sister-in-law’s engagement party.
Take a stroll through the uncanny valley with Emily, an impressive example of how far facial animation has progressed – Previous methods for animating faces have involved putting dots on a face and observing the way the dots move, but Image Metrics analyses facial movements at the level of individual pixels in a video, meaning […]
LitraCon hopes to be selling light transmitting concrete later this year. Amazing looking stuff. Via optics.org “Thousands of optical glass fibers form a matrix and run parallel to each other between the two main surfaces of every block,” explained its inventor Ãron Losonczi. “Shadows on the lighter side will appear with sharp outlines on the […]
Laughing Purple Goldfish came up with a thrifty and clever way to organize her yarn: cardboard magazine bins turned on their sides!
I recently bought a small compressor with tools for my father’s car workshop. I also got a shotblasting gun that that uses the venturi effect to draw grit from a bag and blasts it out with the aid of the compressed air. While effective at removing rust and old paint, it is incredibly messy. I […]
