The Povard is a large hand held POV device that is built onto a very cool laser cut and etched acrylic bezel. A POV “tricks” your eyes into seeing a full image when only part of the image is visible at one time. This effect is called the “Persistence Of Vision.” This is the way the Povard works.
Amy from Mod Podge Rocks and Heather from Dollar Store Crafts have combined their super crafty powers to bring us a new blog, Decor Hacks. From thrift store plate mirrors to a DIY door coffee table, prepare to get inspired to craft your decor dreams without breaking the bank.
Moritz Waldemeyer wrote in to share his interactive laser harp sculpture. You will be happy to hear that this is my very first installation actually using an Arduino to link the lasers via light sensors to a netbook which is running an Open Frameworks app. We created some weird and wonderful sounds from various sirens […]
Woah, great project! Make a Book a Day: “I’m Donna Meyer and this is a Daily Journal of a Challenge: to make a book a day for a year, to stretch my imagination, creativity, skills and discipline.”
We are a bread-loving family, and nothing seems to compliment a big salad and tossed pasta like some yummy, warm garlic bread. I always think of garlic knots as something we’d only get at a restaurant, but Maria from Make and Takes shows how easy it is to whip them up at home using ready-made […]
Those of you who have been following the progress of Steve Lodefinkโs World Control Panel in our last two Flickr pool roundups (1, 2) will enjoy these videos of the completed panel in action. So, too, will almost everyone else. The uppermost vid has a truly rockinโ soundtrack (which I would be grateful to have someone identify), and the one immediately above features Steveโs son, Harlan, explaining the operation of the panel with all the diabolical enthusiasm one would expect from a promising young superspy. And Steveโs photo set has some great details on the build itself. [via Boing Boing]
Instructable user Bruno created this fun real life Super Mario Bros. coin block, which pops out legal tender when it’s hit from the bottom. A 555 timer controls a servo motor to push the coins out of the top while an MP3 player plays the appropriate sound effect. Luckily for us, Bruno painstakingly detailed the […]
