From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Lorier painted “Old Man Shifty” here and then added animated eyes recreating a classic haunted house prop. She employed a Parallax board plus sensors to track movement and trigger the animation – spot-on perfect! – Painting with moving eyes
Matt shares this quick vid of the assembly of a Bare Bones Arduino board. Hrrmmm … it usually takes me a fair bit longer :/ More: MAKE Build: Mechamo Crab & Halloween Hack from make magazine on Vimeo. Bare Bones Arduino Board Kit (Unassembled)
Recalling talk of visuals embedded in a track by electronic experimentalist Aphex Twin, Bastwood decided to take a closer look – First I needed to extract the track from the Windowlicker CD, which was easy with CDex. The extraction of the whole track was not really necessary because the “face” is situated at the very […]
Ladyada writes – If you have an Arduino project where the dev board is stuck inside a machine, or attached to the rafters or is inaccessible in some other way, a wireless programming/debugging link will save you tons of time. This tutorial is an extension on Rob’s version. In this version, no extra firmware or […]
Dror provides us with a video tour of his excellently thorough homemade electronic drumkit. It’s a full performance system including sound synthesis and even the amplifier! Some good ideas here if you’re considering a diy kit yourself – In order to get the same feel with foot pedals i decide to use regular pedals and […]
[All pics by Gary Mattingly] Another highlight of Steam Powered, the Steampunk Convention, was meeting Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, editors of the most excellent Steampunk Anthology. They gave a talk called “Steampunk: Inside and Out.” A few highlights: Jeff shared with us his steampunk equation: Mad scientist inventor + [invention (steam x airship or metal […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Old iBook finds new life as lighting [top-left] 1.5 hours of wiring … [top-right] DIY super-bright LED video light [bottom-left] Meet T.W.E.R.P. [bottom-right]
