Making sunprints is one of my all-time favorite summer activities. I have a new sunprint experiment to add to my list now, thanks to Photojojo. They show you how to take a digital photograph and turn it in to an analog sunprint with just a few simple steps and tools. I love the way they […]
Really impressed by the turnout for the 555 Contest… something like 238 entries! The above videos show three of the submissions. Jeri and I are hard at work thinning the pack to pass on to our hack-master judges by next week. And don’t worry, even if you didn’t make the first cut, you’ll still be […]
Urban Craft Uprising, the Northwest’s biggest craft fair (and one of the friendliest in the country, if you ask me), is now accepting vendor applications for their summer show 2011.
This project is called Take A Picture, by Toronto artists Brad Blucher and Kyle Clements. Though described as “paintings,” it appears that their pieces are in fact IR LED mosaics assembled behind blank canvases. Invisible to the unaided human eye, the IR light is detectable by the CCD in your digital camera and/or smart phone. [via Hack a Day]
Ashley at Design*Sponge shares how she took designs from a favorite fabric and doily and used them to create a custom stencil which she then applied to her painted floors. The effect is quite dramatic and lovely!
Why spend $150-$500 for an LCD viewfinder when you can make one for cheap out of household parts? Instructables user knoptop shows us how to make one out of a baby powder container, dollar store magnifying glass, headphone cover, and a couple of hair ties.
Our buds at RoboGames sent the following announcement about their 2011symposium and competition. They also wrote to tell us that they’d also nabbed Heather Knight from CMU as their academic chair and were super excited about that. Congrats, to RoboGames and Heather. The Role Of Human-Machine Interaction In Robotics Research And Cross-Disciplinary Robotic Advancements And […]
