If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may have been surprised to have spied some your favorite maker orgs in a not so familiar place this weekend — billboards. That’s right, billboards. Conceived by Mitch Altman of Noisebridge as a way to draw awareness to the vibrant Bay Area maker community, and the awesome resources available to its makers, inventors, and educators, the “Invent” campaign hit the skylines of San Francisco and San Jose this week.
The LoL (Lots of LEDs) Shield is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the Arduino. The LEDs are individually addressable, so you can use it to display anything in a 9×14 grid. Scroll text, play games, display images, or anything else you want to do.
Beefranck over on Mr. X Stitch points us to these amazing stitched calavera from Nicola De Jager. I have always had an affair with art but have had a miserable relationship with traditional art materials to be able to translate my thoughts into art works that speak to me. About two years ago I picked […]
OK, obstacle “reflectance” might be a better term, since this Lego Automatic Synchro Drive from YouTuber xyzzzach bounces off of obstacles, rather than actually avoiding them. But its design is so clever it deserves a bit of nomenclatural slack, IMHO.
Tomi‘s halftone was created with 3,774 holes drilled at a rate of around one per second by a DIY CNC 2. [Via Ponoko]
Morgan Gesell made this clever series of latch hooked pieces called, “Cats from my Childhood (with name tags).” I’m also pretty impressed with her “Dream Catcher Lawn Chair.”
My friend, Kristin, pointed me to this awesome crochet AT-AT from Flickr user, mjade19. There are some nice in-progress pictures in her stream as well. Looks like Han and Chewie are having fun! Related: Star Wars AT-AT- Wedding Cake Star Wars Amigurumi Greedo Amigurumi
