FerroFelt Magnetic Wearables
Noah Waxman, a student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, has been playing with felt and magnets and has developed some playful garments he calls Fe Wearables. [via Cool Hunting]
Month: January 2011
Exploding high-five glove
Eli Skipp’s exploding high-five glove fulfills a long-standing need for high-five sound effects. [via the Arduino Blog]
Low-cost ZigBee sniffer made with open source hardware
Akiba of Freak Labs wrote in to share how he used one of his open hardware Freakduino boards to create a realtime wireless protocol analyzer for the 802.15.4 standard.
Magnificent wooden manipulator arm
The latest of many truly outstanding wooden toys from Japanese YouTuber kinohagurama. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
“Inception” Paper Sculpture
This fantastic paper sculpture by Lynne Dhenson of the fight scene from Inception is even more impressive when you learn what her self-imposed “rules” of paper cutting are. It’s all one continuous piece of paper (in fact, aside from several sections taken out of the base no paper has been removed at all, which is […]
Ternary kinetic sculpture
There’s something mesmerizing about a steel ball on a track. It’s the anticipation, I suppose. In Thinking Machine by Martin Riches and Masahiro Miwa the artists have cleverly implemented a ternary computer with levers and tracks that constantly cycle steel balls down internal structures towards three chimes that ring out a computed melody.
Worlds smallest solar movie theater in a trailer
I’m often surprised how much one can fit inside a trailer. Check out this deceptively accommodating movie theater crammed into a recycled 1960’s era travel trailer. It’s solar powered and comes complete with ticket booth, concession stand, and seating for eight adults.
