This is a really cool robot made from an Arduino and a tin can. The best part about the project is a Father and his 3 & 6 year olds built it together. What a great way to spend the Thanksgiving weekend! This blog post will show you how to build an autonomous robot that […]
Kristy Hall has a post up featuring several different works of art created with hundreds (sometimes thousands) of pins. Featured above is Oil Spill by Lisa Kellner, which uses quilting pins. She showcases several artists and their pin work, so it’s worth checking out her full post to see more amazing pieces.
Mechatronics writes – This is a set of musical bells which are driven by solenoids and controlled by an Arduino microcontroller. There are 8 bells covering one octave. The bells are controllable from a PC, or the tower can stand alone and play pre-programmed melodies.
“Sticks” by Doug Back consists of a number of geared down stepper motors with fiberglass sticks mounted on shafts. If a stick touches another, it reverses directions as if they are shy to the touch, ultimately resulting in a common pattern that allows them to rotate freely. Pretty cool idea for a simple autonomous interactive […]
The “ROMP or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform is a remote controlled paintball cannon that allows anyone to control where and when the pellets are spewed forth. Just don’t try to drive this through a crowded urban space or the Feds might be on your tail. via DVICE
Although we’re not really sure what the purpose of this mashup is, we like it’s ghetto style. Someone crammed an N64 console into the body of a Nintendo Wii. For those of you who want to play N64 games on your Wii, you can avoid the destruction and simply use the Virtual Console from the […]
This drippy door was spotted at the Hongik University, Jochiwon campus in Seoul, Korea. Nice way to integrate the physical space with the mental accident space of an art school.
