John Baichtal @ MAKE writes: With GPS units shining from dashboards and Google Maps just a click away, maps have never been more of a part of our culture than they are now. Joshua Huyser‘s cartographical explorations embrace such concepts as travel, movement, paths, and directions.
The DIY mavens at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made this tabletop playable Pong game and very thoroughly documented the build and functionality. What is PONG supposed to represent? Our answer to this question is a game somewhere between pinball and ping pong: Two players each have a single knob that controls the position of a […]
Brooklyn-based lighting designer Lindsey Adelman has published a great tutorial on the construction of this cool spidery brass light fixture from various commercial bits ‘n’ pieces. [via Readymade]
I love the look of these fascinating jewelry pieces made from colored pencils by Italian designer Maria Cristina Belluci. [via HAUTE*NATURE]
Alex’s Emergency Excuse Generator (aka ‘EEG”) uses custom code fed with random input to determine word choice, resulting in convenient untruths so lifelike – you’ll swear it actually happened! … maybe the device uses the immense computational power and the 8K words program memory of a PIC16F690 microcontroller to demodulate an advanced lexico-semantical matrix and […]
MAKE contributor Bill Gurstelle has an awesome article in the latest issue of The Atlantic about DIY, Arduino and art: For a few dollars, creative and motivated individuals–rather than just corporations or institutions–can make highly intelligent tools, perfectly customized for a particular need. …large artistic installations used to require multiple programmers and engineers. But now […]
Dream catcher CAPTCHAs by Gus23, in edition of 23. [Thanks, Tatia!] More: CAPTCHA Paintings
