Year: 2008

DIY Daft Punk helmet

Likely a huge hit at any Halloween party it attended, Casey Pugh’s Daft Punk helmet – It’s a 16×5 LED matrix installed inside a cheap motorcycle helmet I found on Amazon. I used the Arduino to program all the animations. (arduino.cc) The LEDs are on cardboard, so I punched holes between every single LED and […]

Science can be fun!

Popular Science’s Adam Weiner points out this entertaining example of Newton’s First Law of Motion, “a body continues to maintain its state of rest or of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force”. In this case, meaning those carts wanted to stay where they were.

ECC’s wiimote loop interface

ECC’s wiimote loop interface

The Evolution Control Committee has developed a new interface for music software using 2 Wii remotes and a projector. Input is controlled via infrared LED thimble-gloves against a rear-projection screen. Certainly a speedier way to trigger the massive amount of Ableton Live loops seen in the above video. – Based off of Johnny Chung Lee’s […]