Year: 2009

Momiji Doll Couture Contest

Love Momiji is hosting a fun Momiji doll couture contest. Momiji are Japanese message dolls, like the ones shown above, and each one has an opening in its base for a secret message. The contest rules are pretty broad, allowing for maximum creativity. They’re looking for one-off, fabric Momiji dolls using a combination of crafty methods: weaving, printing, knitting, embroidery, whatever flavor you choose. Entries will be judged on “overall wow-factor as well as skill and craftsmanship.”

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Goli Mohammadi6

10 thousand, billion, billion stars

tdarnell writes – I’ve recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. I’ve written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field. […]

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Phillip Torrone6

Murmur Study by Christopher Baker and Marton Andras Juhasz

Murmur Study by Christopher Baker and Marton Andras Juhasz looks at micro-messaging sites like Twitter and Facebook and outputs a physical record of some of the conversations that are happening. All 30 printers are controlled by and Arduino which receives data from Processing. This piece really did make me think about all the personal information […]

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Marc de Vinck4

Let Arduino Play: Arduino game contest

Got a cool Arduino game project that you’re having trouble fitting into a cooler? You might want to check this out: the folks over at Brico Geek are holding an Arduino game contest. There are only 11 days left, so you’ll need to act quickly to get your entry in. Here is what they say […]

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Matt Mets

How-To: Wrap Headbands with Ribbon

May Arts has a tutorial with the many basic ways you can wrap headbands with ribbon from spiral wrapping to adorning them with folded ribbon flowers.

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Nataliezdrieu

Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time…

Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time… @ The Guardian Open Platform- Have you ever missed an important announcement from a friend because you only check Twitter late in the day and couldn’t be bothered to scroll through 8 hours of posts from your friends? Did feel guilty when your feeble “congratulations!” […]

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Phillip Torrone

Arduino color picker

Andrew Rapp made this neat application to help you quickly find appropriate colors to use for your LED project. He hooked up an RGB LED (that is, a single LED module that has red, green, and blue LEDs built into it) to a color picker dialog box on his computer, allowing him to change the […]

Continue Reading August 13th, 2009 Matt Mets

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