This metal rabbit (actually the Stanford Bunny model) is folded from a single laser-cut steel sheet, designed with Origamizer. The project is a collaboration between Tomohiro Tachi, Kenny Cheung, Erik Demaine, and Martin Demaine at MIT. Check out the time-lapse video of its construction:
Plans for this summer’s Mini-Maker Faire in Vancouver, BC are well under way, and the deadline for the Call For Makers is fast approaching. Check out the Vancouver Mini-Maker Faire web page for full details on event dates, deadlines and application information.
This metal rabbit (actually the Stanford Bunny model) is folded from a single laser-cut steel sheet, designed with Origamizer.
Which is something that I’ve been wanting for years, and not because I harbor any kind of weird anti-Simon resentment. I just think it would make bag workouts way more interesting. The project has an Arduino for brains, and has been pretty well-documented by its creator Lior Elazary. Next: Spice it up a bit, add more striking zones, different color LEDs, maybe some screaming, groaning, grunting, and/or Steven-Seagal-style bone-breaking sound FX. Nice work, Lior! [via Hacked Gadgets]
The LED Cube kit is an animated 3D cube of LEDs made by modifying the MiniPOV! It’s been a popular hack, and now all the parts are available in a kit from the Maker Shed.
I love the idea of adding a little extra sparkle to a plain potted plant, and this tutorial for “plant jewelry” from Camilla at Family Chic shows you how to do just that. As she points out, it’s a fun and easy way to dress up a plant to give as a hostess or housewarming […]
Perhaps circuit bending isn’t the right term, but this is a pretty cool project. For this project I brought together a 3 channel LED light organ with a pal/ntsc video colourprocessor. The bass, mid and high of the sound is controlling the red,green and blue of the video. The image itself is highly reactive to […]
