In the Maker Shed: Trip Glasses
Hack your Brain with the Trip Glasses in the Maker Shed! Get comfortable, put on the glasses and headphones, close your eyes (the LEDs are bright!), and flick the power switch.
Month: March 2011
How-To: Piano Pillows
I love the bold, graphic look of these quilted “piano pillows” from Oh, Fransson! It’s cool to see how different the pillow pieces look before and after they are quilted.
How-To: Hardware Chocolates
Make molds from nuts and cast your own mechanical chocolates!
Lego Minifig Volt and Ohm Meter
This Lego meter uses a microcontroller inside the case to check resistors and batteries. A PC running a .NET application displays the value and uses text to speech to say the number aloud. [Via Dangerous Prototypes]
Craftovision Videos From Corinne Leigh
Corrine Leigh, founder of Threadbanger, is back with crafty videos on her new blog, Craftovision. Went back to my roots of making videos…I cannot help it, I love to have a variety of different segments thus creating more work for myself. A wise man once told me that I make things too difficult. That is […]
Stephen Colbert Portrait With Subliminal IR Message Marquee
Fortunately, Austrian filmmaker Benjamin Hable has discovered that you can use your cell phone, digital camera, or other CCD-equipped gadget (rather like the special sunglasses discovered by โRowdyโ Roddy Piperโs character in John Carpenterโs 1988 conspiranoia flick They Live) to see the fnords. Benjamin made Augmented Paranoia for a January 17 exhibition called bits and ohm, and used the public-domain portrait of Stephen Colbert released for the Colbert Nation Portrait Challenge. Reminds me of a project I did a few years back ( (also inspired by They Live) involving deliberately burning subliminal messages into the phosphors of analog TV tubes. [Thanks, Benjamin!]
The Cyclotrope: Amazing Bike Wheel Animation
Who would have ever thought that there were so many ways to combine cycling and persistence of vision? Here’s another cool one to add to the list: much like a zoetrope, Tim Wheatley’s Cyclotrope is a bike wheel that gives the illusion of animation when it’s being spun on camera. [via Neatorama] More: Embroidered Animation […]
