While not conventionally musical, the Electrochemical Synthesizer’s process for generating sound is unusually interesting – Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations. The device demonstrates how […]
Martha from Cut Out + Keep says to forget about sock monkeys and make a socktopus instead.
A demonstration of the littleBits electronic component system in use prototyping some features for a coffee maker design. littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping […]
As a New Yorker, these subway-inspired illustrations by Christoph Niemann caught my eye. via Fly.
An Arduino, model bulldozer, servos, and sensors can be hacked together to make a sub-$100 robotics platform, appropriately named Ard-e. While certainly nowhere near as fancy as this Wall-E replica, the price is right and the Arduino’s got a huge body of pre-existing code for working with sensors that the aspiring roboticist can build upon. […]
Craftland happening from December 5 – 24, in Providence, RI is now accepting applications online. The deadline is August 31st. Applicants will be notified on or before September 16, 2008. Pictured above is me at Craftland from 2006.
Now this is a great art project… “GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself” We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end “we” own it! By establishing […]
