Drawing machine creates to the beats
“Drawing Machine” is a robotic device that uses the physicality of sound vibrations to influence a pen rotating on a robotic arm. Check out the video to see this thing in action. via
Year: 2008
Clocks create letters when synced
”O’Clock” by Nadine Grenier, a student at ESAD Strasbourg in France, is a kinetic installation made from 300 analog clocks set in sequence to display this sentence every 12 hours when their hands come into alignment: “le temps passe, et chaque fois qu’il y a du temps passe, il y a quelque chose qui s’efface.” […]
HOW TO – Paper Pieced Hexagon Flower Ornament
Lovestitches has a tutorial up for making these sweet soft paper pieced hexagon flower ornaments. I’m thinking they are cute enough to have up year-round.
Minneapolis Art on Wheels – MAKE: television
Each episode of MAKE: television includes in-depth profiles of prominent Makers. Here’s a quick preview of an upcoming profile of Minneapolis Art on Wheels. Ali Momeni and his fleet of mobile video projectors transform public spaces into real-time sound and light shows on a massive scale. View the clip above, get the M4V and/or subscribe […]
HOW TO – display RSS feeds with Arduino
Ross writes – This project is a python script that outputs facebook status updates to an arduino connected serial LCD. It is really just an rss reader, so it could be set up to parse just about any rss feed from weather to stocks to email. Very cool and useful! Read his detailed how-to to […]
Navigate Flickr by color
This is fun and useful… Navigate Flickr by color! We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting†Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour
LEDs light the LEGO skyline
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Micah’s Lego Sky project incorporates an Ikea LED light strip and touchpad control – The Altoids tin has the modified driver circuit: It’s the original circuit board with the microcontroller removed, then a homemade Arduino clone to control it. The orange box is an old Cirque PS/2 touchpad, removed […]
