Art forms in nature, all 400 pages on Flickr and as a PDF via Beyond the Beyond… EricGjerde writes – Kunst-Formen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), by Ernst Haeckel, 1898. This is a wonderful book, in the public domain, which features all sorts of illustrations of the natural world. If you’re doing some research […]
Bug Labs has a new series of videos they just posted, check them out here.
Josh Kopel will be teaching an Arduino workshop through Seattle’s 911 Media Arts Center. The Arduino is a small programmable device capable of big things. With it you can examine the world through various sensors and use the data to control motors, lights and just about any other electronic device. Come learn how to build […]
Casper’s brother made him this totally sweet bronze sculpture using Styrofoam and a LEGO minifig. Via Brothers Brick
This was one of the most charming projects I saw at Maker Faire, Nyssa’s little micro RC jousters. Such a simple idea, a great project for kids, and one of those things that starts you thinking about other things to do with your tiny RC cars. You could make lots of papercraft skins, have a […]
A nice essay to freak you out from Kevin Kelly… computing superorganisms… I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. […]
PaHalloweenFreak came up with this easy giant spider illusion Instructable. Sometimes what we imagine is much worse than what we can see . . .
