MAKE Technical Advisory Board member and lovable hardware hacker Joe Grand has been continuing to post all of the schematics, source code, and technical design details of his contributions to the Prototype This builds. Ten episodes have aired so far for the season and there are three more to go (air dates unknown). There’s a […]
Powering Down: Q&A with Saul Griffith… Forget about a new gym membership or diet. The most important New Year’s resolution for 2009 may be slimming down your energy footprint. Saul Griffith, a MacArthur genius grant winner and president of Makani Power, believes that a mass movement is necessary to avert catastrophic climate change. To that […]
Jason writes in… I thought you and the rest of the MAKE team might enjoy this story. I had been wanting one of your notebooks for quite some time, and I finally received one as a birthday gift from my wife back in October. She does not fully appreciate my fascination with your blog and […]
The “Stealth” project uses a NOVA 3D grid of LEDs to display a 3D light visualization. The “piece acts as a collaborative spatial musical instrument where each “missile” of light emits sounds based on its relative position and the conditions it encounters along its trajectory.” Interesting use of lighting which reminds us of several other […]
This stop-motion video advertisement was made with over 300,000 illuminated candles. Pretty amazing work, especially the falling flames that trigger the lighting of the candles on the floor. Happy New Year by Electrabel
This installation called “BB_Write” employs a Blackberry and custom hardware to create four micro environments that correspond to the keywords: liberation, innovation, interaction, communication. The project attempts to build a spatial version of the “always on” experience as the Blackberry collects email constantly and generates ambient sounds based on incoming emails from visitors to the […]
Craftster user Id created this impressive felt dragon, inspired by the movie Reign of Fire. Can you believe this is only the second plushie she/he has made…?!
