Found these ceramic tiles in the shape of floppy disks at the site of Australian design firm ENESS, who made a pretty cool game of augmented-reality Pong played on a whiteboard awhile back, and, I believe, are also responsible for making these. There’s no info about how it was done, however, and the post is titled “5 1/4 inch,” in spite of the fact that these are clearly 3 1/2 inch floppies. Cool idea, though. Anyone have more info?
Saturday was Alicia Gibb’s Arduino-themed art show at NYC Resistor (hackerspace in Brooklyn). It was packed, beepy, twitchy, blinky, and super fun! I had a piece in the show and took a few photos. There’s also a peek at photos to come over on the NYC Resistor site. Here’s Alicia looking super safe during setup, […]
Shing Yin Khor is a sculptor and illustrator inspired by monsters, tentacles, mediocre science fiction movies, bikes, Dungeons and Dragons, and really adorable cats. Educated as a theatrical scenic designer and prop maker, and employed in the technology field, [I] now synthesize my eclectic skill set into accessible and affordable art ranging from desktop monster sculptures to walk-in spacepods installed at Burning Man.
19-year-old German Lego fan Kevin Walter used CAD program LDraw to ‘build’ this awesome starship. If actually built the model would be 13′ long by 11′ wide by 5′ high and use 274,350 bricks. See Walter’s Flickr page for more renders. [via Brothers Brick]
Luis Cruz of Honduras built this Embedded Entertainment System using a total of four microcontrollers.
Kyle tried out our T-shirt pillow chair project and writes: Here are the pictures from my attempt this project. I think this must be a great project for beginners because I have never used a sewing machine before and I pulled it off. [Thanks, Tiffany!] More: Pillow Chair from T-Shirts and Foam
I’ve had a long-held fascination with letterpress printing (which I finally got to try when I was in Portland a year ago) and I especially love seeing alternative items used to make impressions on the press. Sean at MAKE points us to these prints from Etsy seller, Stukenborg, are made entirely out of dice laid […]
