“Judy Castro doesn’t have a background in engineering. But with Arduino, she doesn’t need one to make her sculptures move, light up or breathe fire. The San Francisco artist uses the microcontroller and software program to create interactive works of art — something she once might have paid an electrical engineer thousands of dollars to do.”…
Spotted on Google+, a game of Battleship played with shots… er for the shots. I love the use of salt/pepper shakers(?) for the bridges on the carriers. Hope this is team sport, otherwise this is a wargame that takes real casualties.
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Andrew Lewis recreates a cool early 20th century vintage toy using a few pieces of bamboo, tissue paper, and a rubber band.
Twist this ring on your finger and two other gears will spin up. The “brass cast triple-gear kinetic ring” is just one of many incredible interactive pieces by Bouchard, who is interviewed by James Floyd Kelly on Make. Bouchard also shows us his layered rotating Lotus Table with expanding petals, his sand-filled mechanical Zen garden […]
Lisa Pongrace’s cupcake cars are powered by electric motors, and evolved from a costume idea for Burning Man. After building the first prototype, her friends wanted their own mobile muffins and helped create a fleet of confectionery art cars, now known as Acme Muffineering.
Architect Paul Gaertner built this beautiful 1/72 scale replica of the so-called “Atomic Annie” US M65 nuclear-capable 280mm artillery piece, and its two specially-built tractors.
