Here is a new piece by Lockwasher, one of my favorite artists. His found-object sculptures are sublime. Part of the fun with his work is recognizing where all the parts came from. In the case of this robotic bug: Fashioned from – pneumatic spark plug cleaner, Illinois license plate, shoe trees, lawn sprinkler, bicycle brake […]
Yesterday, Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE: Magazine, and John Park, the host of the Maker Workshop on Make: television spoke with Rebecca Roberts of the
While researching a new project (as us mad-scientists-types are prone to do), I found this amazing video. It’s basically a clear chemical that undergoes a reaction in the presence of UV light that makes it very quickly turn green. But, the key here is that the reaction is also quickly reversible – in about a […]
Instructables user crowdsourced writes: We had a nicely constructed, found, end-table with an aging surface, and I’ve wanted to do a broken tile mosaic for a long time. However, finding cheap or free (broken) tiles is nearly impossible. Called tile stores looking for broken or leftover pieces. Went to Menard’s; broken tiles are cataloged as […]
The Nuage Vert (or “Green Cloud”) installation aims to heighten public energy awareness in Helsinki by outlining the emissions of a local power plant via green laser. As a previous commenter points out, there’s a bit of irony present due to the high-powered laser’s high-power consumption – still, altering the local mindset for the better […]
For today’s EMS Labs project, Windell shows you how to connect two Meggy, JR RGB game units to one another, using a hacked CD-ROM-to-Mobo cable. The cable can also be used to provide a serial connection between any two Arduino-compatible devices normally programmed through a FTDI USB-TTL cable. A tale of two Meggies
Indy Mogul shares this hi-speed how to on building your own cable track and camera mount for those cinematic fly-by shots – How to make a cable cam for cheap
